can you click and make him follow youor do i have very eerie timing at the moment?
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 20:52,
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eerie very eeriearggggggggggghhhhhhh THE FEAR!
( mrbongo sweating like a formicophiliac on I'm a celebrity,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 20:53,
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no really you cancan't you???
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 20:54,
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okay it's stopped working nowbut i was on a long long run of success, every time i clicked on one side or the other he'd change direction.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was playing a fruit machine based on monopoly, it was a 20p a go one a few years ago, the jackpot was £10 but if you got onto the monopoly feature you could go around and win more by getting a series of wins (ie a win + repeat chances)
Well anyway if you went around the board and survived without getting sent to jail or declared bankrupt or if you wanted to collect a prize when you got to it (landing on the property squares offerd a bigger and bigger win as you went around the board).
Anyway I got the Whitechapel or whatever the other brown property is and then carried on and on, landed on a chance and got sent back to old kent road.
This gave me a set (60p in winnings) and a repeat chance.
I kid you not, absolutely true, i got repeat after repeat after repeat, 60p a time it was utterly ridiculous i was laughing and embarrassed and i honestly thought the machine had got broken because I ended up with about £32 by the end of it - you work it out over FIFTY repeats. Try and imagine that. 50 it just went on and on forever.
The manager of the arcade came and watched he must have thought i was scamming him or something.
(Did I ever tell you about the time I was playing a fruit machine based on monopoly, it was a 20p a go one a few years ago, the jackpot was £10 but if you got onto the monopoly feature you could go around and win more by getting a series of wins (ie a win + repeat chances)
Well anyway if you went around the board and survived without getting sent to jail or declared bankrupt or if you wanted to collect a prize when you got to it (landing on the property squares offerd a bigger and bigger win as you went around the board).
Anyway I got the Whitechapel or whatever the other brown property is and then carried on and on, landed on a chance and got sent back to old kent road.
This gave me a set (60p in winnings) and a repeat chance.
I kid you not, absolutely true, i got repeat after repeat after repeat, 60p a time it was utterly ridiculous i was laughing and embarrassed and i honestly thought the machine had got broken because I ended up with about £32 by the end of it - you work it out over FIFTY repeats. Try and imagine that. 50 it just went on and on forever.
The manager of the arcade came and watched he must have thought i was scamming him or something.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 21:14,
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gambling talesof days gone by, you never cease to amaze me.
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100% kitten better than ever,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 21:21,
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At University where they had £200 and £150 jackpot machinesthere was one in the same part as some pool tables and i played an awful lot of pool at uni (and pinball and the odd fruit machine or two) and people would get very serious with the fruit machines.
It was not uncommon say if someone got onto the special feature of the fruit machine and got up to say £20 and decided to collect it for one of the 'serious' people to recognise from all their experience/moneyspent playing the machine that it was likely to pay out more and actually buy out this persons position on the machine - give them £25 quid and then carry on from the £20 position on the fruit machine.
Sometimes getting all the way to the jackpot, and sometimes only getting a few pounds more than they started but more often than not they'd double their payoff cost.
(It was not uncommon say if someone got onto the special feature of the fruit machine and got up to say £20 and decided to collect it for one of the 'serious' people to recognise from all their experience/moneyspent playing the machine that it was likely to pay out more and actually buy out this persons position on the machine - give them £25 quid and then carry on from the £20 position on the fruit machine.
Sometimes getting all the way to the jackpot, and sometimes only getting a few pounds more than they started but more often than not they'd double their payoff cost.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Wed 8 Jan 2003, 21:32,
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