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Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by DanOregon, Nov 14, 2020.

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  1. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    My wife's cousin is a meterologist with the National Weather Service in North Carolina. He went to school somewhere in Kansas to learn how to be one.

    He loves the government rate for flights and hotels and car rentals.
     
    swingline, Nov 18, 2020
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  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Maybe like a lot of sports fans in their 20s, I harbored thoughts of being a professional sports bettor. Ah, to be young and naive. But a guy I knew at a competing paper made a go of it. One year I was covering state playoffs alongside him, next thing I know he had moved to Vegas and was hooked up with one of the "consulting" services. Have no idea if he survived, and I can't remember his name all these years later, but that was fascinating to see.
     
    playthrough, Nov 19, 2020
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  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I once met a guy at Palm Beach Kennel Club whose "job" was hanging there all day, betting on dog races and simulcast horse racing and making stock trades.
    He never bet on Jai alai because "you never know which of those bastards was out doing coke until 5 in the morning."
     
    Driftwood, Nov 19, 2020
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  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Just till 5? Lightweight.
     
    Songbird, Nov 19, 2020
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