Tips for Tikay

[tikay]

ha, the bettinon.com golf tipster has gone for Matt Kuchar this week in the World Matchplay, the very fella gramps bet on my accident trying to click on Martin Kaymer. Feels like fate...

That would be so embarrassing.

[tikay]

well done on the corners bet, im really surprised by the amount of people on here who sniff out these 'special' bets, im more like tikays grandad (take 3 hours to find 3 horses lol).
Cant help thinking how the bookies must make up a lot of these bets to confuse punters, some seem hard to understand the true odds for.
Anyway keep up the good work .

It really amazes me the quirky and obscure bets some folks find. Respect to them for shunning the workaday regular stuff and doing their homework.

I have been researching that NCAA bet tonight on Gonzago Bulldogs, really think we have a bit of value there.

[Tal]

ha, the bettinon.com golf tipster has gone for Matt Kuchar this week in the World Matchplay, the very fella gramps bet on my accident trying to click on Martin Kaymer. Feels like fate...

That would be so embarrassing.

KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

[doubleup]

I have been researching that NCAA bet tonight on Gonzago Bulldogs, really think we have a bit of value there.

didn't you learn not to mess with jesuit saints after the last time?

[tikay]

^^^^

I well recall it. I have a sort of childish fascination with these weird named teams.

Is there a better tem name than Gonzago Bulldogs? Oldham Athletic just don't cut it.

[horseplayer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21509713

very good and moving little interview with terry yorath

do not watch if feeling a bit emotional

[doubleup]

The picture is actually a completely flat roof - it was painted by a jesuit priest who was known for his trompe l'oeill

[tikay]

The picture is actually a completely flat roof - it was painted by a jesuit priest who was known for his trompe l'oeill

Damn you, I have to go investigate that now.

[Tal]

^^^^

I well recall it. I have a sort of childish fascination with these weird named teams.

Is there a better tem name than Gonzago Bulldogs? Oldham Athletic just don't cut it.

Jesuit discovery fact (from the 'I know this is tenuous but in what circumstances do you ever get to crowbar this stuff in?' file):



This was painted in 1602 by an Italian fellow known as Caravaggio, while James I was kinging about and while Billy Shakespeare was penning the stories that ruined many a schoolday.

A couple of hundred years later, The Taking of the Christ disappeared.

It was not for a further 200 - in 1990 - that it was found in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Dublin:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/caravbr-1.shtm

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taking_of_Christ_(Caravaggio)

It had long been thought that the painting hanging up in the hall since the 1930s was a copy.  

Whoops.

[doubleup]

fackin mad was that caraveggio

Click to see full-size image.

I mean what was this about?

[Tal]

Wiki tells me this is The Seven Acts of Mercy and it depicts the Catholic concept of there being seven types of merciful acts:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Works_of_Mercy_(Caravaggio)

Caravaggio had the most incredible ability to make his paintings come to life.

A lot of his stuff was religious, which he's hardly unique for as everyone was at it back then.

Very few cows cut in half in early 17th Century Rome.

[Acidmouse]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21509713

very good and moving little interview with terry yorath

do not watch if feeling a bit emotional

Losing his son really did break the family, Terry now lives in a one bedroom flat 2mins from me, see him daily on street lane frequenting the bookies. The locals adore him but how he is deeply deeply sad man.

[horseplayer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21509713

very good and moving little interview with terry yorath

do not watch if feeling a bit emotional

Losing his son really did break the family, Terry now lives in a one bedroom flat 2mins from me, see him daily on street lane frequenting the bookies. The locals adore him but how he is deeply deeply sad man.

yes you can see in his eyes on that how much he is hurting

[doubleup]

Wiki tells me this is The Seven Acts of Mercy and it depicts the Catholic concept of there being seven types of merciful acts:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Works_of_Mercy_(Caravaggio)

Caravaggio had the most incredible ability to make his paintings come to life.

A lot of his stuff was religious, which he's hardly unique for as everyone was at it back then.

Very few cows cut in half in early 17th Century Rome.

but do you see what the dame on the right is up to with the old bloke?  If I didn't know better she's about to turn round and bum him in the mouth.

[The Camel]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21509713

very good and moving little interview with terry yorath

do not watch if feeling a bit emotional

Losing his son really did break the family, Terry now lives in a one bedroom flat 2mins from me, see him daily on street lane frequenting the bookies. The locals adore him but how he is deeply deeply sad man.

Jesus, that is hard to watch.

Can't someone give a role in scouting or something, the guy needs a purpose in his life.