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!!
Dog it had to be said – even if you didn’t – sort of
So well … uh, said
Zut, Andybob, yes one-armed bandits is still a relevant term tho you might get the disability lobby riled.
And love your logic HB.
What about negative leveraging – that might attract the investment bank weenies – and that might affect LIBOR – but would be good to watch them lose – and I seem to be the only person left in Australia who can spell lose for some unfathonable reason – but I digress …
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Holden Back
July 25, 2012 at 1:25 pmAt your Blot-ian best. Deniable plausability or is it plausible deniability. Whatever- you’d never suggest anything actionable.
zut alors
July 25, 2012 at 1:28 pmLet’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
July 25, 2012 at 1:39 pmBut 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
July 25, 2012 at 1:40 pmZut, 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.)
paddy
July 25, 2012 at 1:41 pmLadies and gentlemen, boys and girls…..
The GOLD medal, for creative use of an asterisk with triple somersault & pike….
Goes to Firstdogonthemoon!!!
Bravo!!
Andybob
July 25, 2012 at 1:41 pmOne armed bandits seemed to sum it up well Zut.
ernmalleyscat
July 25, 2012 at 1:44 pmJACKPOT!!!
Three cloacas on the top reel!
Ding ding.
zut alors
July 25, 2012 at 1:53 pmAndybob, that name sits well apart from the fact that they no longer have arms. Nor do they have a heart.
‘Sucker machines’…as in suck the suckers dry.
drovers cat
July 25, 2012 at 1:59 pmDog it had to be said – even if you didn’t – sort of
So well … uh, said
Zut, Andybob, yes one-armed bandits is still a relevant term tho you might get the disability lobby riled.
And love your logic HB.
What about negative leveraging – that might attract the investment bank weenies – and that might affect LIBOR – but would be good to watch them lose – and I seem to be the only person left in Australia who can spell lose for some unfathonable reason – but I digress …
Just Me
July 25, 2012 at 2:04 pmI made as far as the Chris Berg panel, which triggered an hysterical laughter induced hernia.
My favourite medical condition!