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My lucky number comes up!
Ormondroyd Started conversation Aug 16, 2008
In general, I like to try to be rational about things and eschew any thoughts of the supernatural. But sometimes coincidences do get eerie...
So it was yesterday. There are two teams whose home games I watch regularly: Bradford City and Guiseley. Yesterday, they both won 2-0, and City's great local rivals Leeds United lost 2-0. City's Peter Thorne scored two goals, and David Brown scored goal number two for Guiseley two minutes from the end of their game. I could hardly fail to see the pattern there.
So I bought a ticket for the National Lottery's Thunderball game, and chose 2 as the number for both the Thunderball (the key number in the game, drawn from a separate set of 14 balls) and as one of the five other chosen numbers that the game calls for. My other four numbers were selected from other aspects of my team's games today, for instance Peter Thorne's shirt number and the times of his goals.
Guess what happened? I had two winning numbers, and both of them were 2! The two twos I picked both came up in the draw. Sadly none of my other numbers were winners, but as I had the Thunderball and one other winning number, I won £5.
And it certainly seems obvious what my lucky number is at present. Perhaps I should try again in the next draw on Wednesday and try to make it two in a row...
My lucky number comes up!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 17, 2008
If you win the Thunderball, I think the prize should be a night out with Tom Jones.
There is a connection - just think James Bond
My lucky number comes up!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 18, 2008
My lucky number comes up!
Hypatia Posted Aug 18, 2008
Tom Jones hasn't aged as well as Sean Connery. Connery is still sexy.
My lucky number comes up!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 18, 2008
Yeah. Shame about that perm and those facelifts
When I was working at Cheapo we decided to cover the walls of the toilets with old LP covers. Right opposite the khazi in the female bog we put a Tom Jones sleeve, so as the ladies were sitting on the throne this was staring back at them at eye level http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/60/24/98/43/0060249843231_500X500.jpg
We suspect that a) Quite a few of them couldn't go and b) a good few others spent longer in there than they otherwise might have
My lucky number comes up!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 18, 2008
My lucky number comes up!
Ormondroyd Posted Aug 20, 2008
In my music journo days, I once had the strange experience of watching Tom Jones rehearsing in the Brixton Academy, a big concert venue that holds around 4,000 people. I was impressed to see that he rehearsed everything bar the real golden oldies - I heard him say to his band 'We don't need to do "Delilah", do we?' But for the newer numbers, he practised all his gyrations and even yelled 'THANK YOU, LONDON!' to the virtually empty hall during 'Kiss'. What a !
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My lucky number comes up!
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- 5: tartaronne (Aug 17, 2008)
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