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Audrine

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Doing the pools
« on: Sep 24, 2018, 09:41:36 PM »
My Ddd used to spend several hours doing his pools. I don't think he ever won very much, but he loved pouring over the scores every week.


Do any of you do them & have you ever had a big winner!
What would you do with the money if you did win a large sum!
Is it taxable!
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fortyone

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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #1 on: Sep 24, 2018, 09:52:13 PM »
I'm not even sure that the pools are still running these days. I can recall having an any 8 from 10 perm sometime in the 70s but packed up when whoever the collector was did.

I suspect that the lotteries have taken over from the pools these days. Despite suspecting that they are a tax on stupidity I still sometimes buy a lucky dip having stopped my regular numbers twice a week when they doubled the price to £2.

No idea what I'd do if I did win big but as the odds against it are huge I don't even think about it.

Are spot the balls still running? I stopped buying papers in the 70s too.
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #2 on: Sep 24, 2018, 10:02:02 PM »
If you look on page 2 of the memory lane category i once posted a story titled 'my friend jack' which seemed to go down well at the time.
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #3 on: Sep 24, 2018, 10:05:52 PM »
i buy lucky dips on the euro lottery
every week i consider what i might do, its over a hundred million tomorrow night
can you even imagine it... good luck to all who dabble
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #4 on: Sep 25, 2018, 02:20:54 PM »
My dad was a great believer in " doing the pools" every week when we were growing up. Never won though.  :-\
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #5 on: Sep 25, 2018, 04:11:28 PM »
Although we were pretty poor after my dad died, my mum did the pools every week - '3 draws' - although the prizes were small it offered the best chance of a win. She gambled 6d a week and on a couple of occasions won 10/- - sent her over the moon! To be fair, over time she lost out, but it kept her happy and as a widow with three kids to bring up on a pittance, she deserved some enjoyment.
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #6 on: Sep 25, 2018, 04:24:46 PM »
I remember my granddad doing the pools. Vernons I think it was. A collector used to come to the house and get his coupon and his 2/6. Dont remember him winning any thing at all!

As Audrine says I think the pleasure was derived from scrutinizing the teams and trying to predict the scores.

Never done it myself, not a gambler - my mum used to say "you never see a poor bookie". It can still be applied to day with the shift to the many forms of electronic/internet gambling.  The house always wins!
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Michael Rolls

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« Reply #7 on: Sep 25, 2018, 04:54:57 PM »
Oh, and we used to listen to the results on the radio Saturday evening. The pools included Scottish results and Vernon (my late brother) and I were fascinated when it was announced 'Forfar Five, Fife Four). Apparently that result happened recently and was claimed to be for the first time - but I can't imagine Vernon and I being bright enough to make it up!
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« Reply #8 on: Sep 25, 2018, 05:04:34 PM »
Forfar four, East Fife five! As soon as I saw the title that came to mind.  ;)   I remember my dad listening to the results on the wireless on Saturday tea times.
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #9 on: Sep 25, 2018, 05:50:57 PM »
Jcb driver you took me back a bit there, that was one of my dads sayings about bookies, along with "they don't smoke my cigars..."
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #10 on: Oct 01, 2018, 02:37:04 AM »
My dear old dad did Littlewoods regularly every week following the war, working out his forecasts with the most complicated mathematical formulations.  It did him little good; the only real win he achieved was about 1948 when he won £20.  He gave Mam and self a large white five pound note each and he retained the remaining tenner.  First time I had seen a white fiver!  He used to obtain a lot of advice from a paper "The Sporting Record."  In 1949 at Christmas they ran a junior painting competition and I won a copy of the book "The Swiss Family Robinson" which was delivered by post on Christmas morning.  I think I still have it upstairs in the old toy cupboard.  Now Mam and Dad are sadly long gone together with the poor old Sporting Record and I was 84 yesterday!
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #11 on: Oct 01, 2018, 02:50:39 AM »
Happy Birthday John...and many more mate.
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #12 on: Oct 01, 2018, 08:53:32 AM »
yes happy birthday, you made me smile by having an 'old' toy cupboard
do you also have a new toy cupboard...lol... i bet that old cupboard brings back so many memories... folks today will be having an old phone cupboard...
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #13 on: Oct 01, 2018, 08:59:42 AM »
Happy birthday for yesterday, John. Hope you had a good one
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Re: Doing the pools
« Reply #14 on: Oct 01, 2018, 03:29:37 PM »
Happy 84 th for yesterday John! audrine


Yes, I also remember my Dad & his weekly pools. 
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