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Holden Back
12 years ago
At your Blot-ian best. Deniable plausability or is it plausible deniability. Whatever- you’d never suggest anything actionable.
zut alors
12 years ago
Let’s examine the name – POKER machine. Surely poker is a card game requiring skill, cunning and luck – at various points in a game of poker the brain is actually required to engage. This is the antithesis of being parked at a poker machine.
We need a new, more accurate name to re-brand these machines, Dogonauts. Suggestions?
Andybob
12 years ago
But FD, if they didn’t do it then some other smug bastard would and they wouldn’t enjoy all the benefits that come from supporting pokies. So it’s not like they don’t totally have a good reason.
Holden Back
12 years ago
Zut, Fruit Machines, (US-style) might keep people away, with it’s suggestion of a healthy diet and regular bowel movements. (So inconvenient when you’re a winning streak.)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…..
The GOLD medal, for creative use of an asterisk with triple somersault & pike….
Goes to Firstdogonthemoon!!!
Bravo!!
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At your Blot-ian best. Deniable plausability or is it plausible deniability. Whatever- you’d never suggest anything actionable.
Let’s examine the name – POKER machine. Surely poker is a card game requiring skill, cunning and luck – at various points in a game of poker the brain is actually required to engage. This is the antithesis of being parked at a poker machine.
We need a new, more accurate name to re-brand these machines, Dogonauts. Suggestions?
But FD, if they didn’t do it then some other smug bastard would and they wouldn’t enjoy all the benefits that come from supporting pokies. So it’s not like they don’t totally have a good reason.
Zut, Fruit Machines, (US-style) might keep people away, with it’s suggestion of a healthy diet and regular bowel movements. (So inconvenient when you’re a winning streak.)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…..
The GOLD medal, for creative use of an asterisk with triple somersault & pike….
Goes to Firstdogonthemoon!!!
Bravo!!