Comments on: 2009 Melbourne Cup open thread

By: Fine

Fine — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:23:07 +0000

There’s also an English horse called Mourayan, who’s been bought for next year’s Cup, Paul. The race is going to double in money to $10 million, so the local millionaires are spending up big overseas.

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:50:43 +0000

Mourilyan certainly sounds like the name of a Caucasian Stalinist commissar (which may be why Kadyrov chose it for his horse), but it’s actually a town in far north Queensland.

By: jo

jo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:12:39 +0000

Bloody Kevvie – he backed the 2007 winner as well. Efficient…that’s an understatement.

As for the 2009 winners…….. Shocking… Crime Scene… Mourilyan ……….hello!!…..you may as well spell out Chechen war crimes perpetrated by Ramzan Kadyrov.

Just more evidence for the Hague, when he’s there in next decade or so.

oops, wrong conspiracy thread…

By: Bill Henson

Bill Henson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:28:58 +0000

I didn’t take up Mr. Rudd’s Cup tip because I thought he was just rattling on about my photos again.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:05:22 +0000

And here was me thinking Alcopop was a cert, for the twisted reasoning I laid out further up-thread. Good thing I didn’t go down town and make a bet. Still, on the reasoning that refugees, oil spills, fires in the Timor Sea and selling out on global warming were good guides to picking a cup horse, Shocking would’ve been just as good a pick. And, if I’d been even remotely aware a horse of that name was running in the Cup, I would’ve picked it.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:33:21 +0000

Yeh, Ambi. I’m thinking of starting a cargo cult based around Kevvie. We got that cash and bought a car. Then he gave us insulation. I think he will soon bring us an aeroplane full of white goods.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:50:22 +0000

Follow Kevvie and you just can’t go wrong, joe2.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:05:07 +0000

Well look at that!

I heard Kev Rudd mention his choice for the cup on radio this morning which I mentioned @48. And silly old me did not take his advice. Shocking paid out very well for the win.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:31:04 +0000

kids! don’t yer luv ‘em. Out on the street against Pauline Hanson when they was ten. Now they’re all grown up and voting. See,Mr. Rudd.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:40:54 +0000

Hey. I made money on cup day. I just managed to shift the crap in the gully trap without calling in the rip off plumber.