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Originally Posted by iceman
Not that the horse races usually interest me, but hey, who doesn't buy a horse in the Melbourne Cup sweep 
I just won the $5 sweep with Americain |
Sounds like your shout come 5pm.
It certainly powered away incredibly at the end.
A friend use to tell me of his time as a trainee engineer with what is now Telstra and
what was then the Postmaster General (PMG). When the telephone exchanges still
used relays and electromechanical uniselectors, there would be this constant chatter
inside the exchange building of all these devices operating. He told me when you sat
in the exchange during the Melbourne Cup, then there would be increased chattering
leading up to the race then it would go nearly dead quiet during the race, finally
resuming to a flurry of chattering after the race.