You missed the point. Nobody stole anything from him: he made a mistake in placing his bet. Of course, he doesn’t like loosing money, even when it’s his own fault, and he’s the kind of guy who might just lean on you, or steal the money back — And then the place was busted by the Fed’s, so there was nobody and nothing left.
It wasn’t lack of room, it was that it was unstable with two. (N.B. done carefully, they possibly could have managed it, but where’s the drama in that?)
Sidebar to this:
Robert Heinlein made the statement that a librarian commented to him on the weird names used for aliens - so he wrote a book about a Martian named Smith. 
Kind of related in the obverse sense -
When I took my daughter to see “Wreck-it Ralph” I had to explain why I nearly lost it when the (cookie) guards in the Palace solemnly intoned “Ohh-Ree-Ohh”. 
I did that one too. A Japanese exchange student we hosted tried to explain it to me, but we missed connecting due to linguistic barriers. The “penny dropped” when I noticed that the (old) logo was the constellation.
When you hear the ENTIRE folk song, it’s much more obvious. The final verse explains the love asks the impossible, but if she is willing to try “Then she’ll be a true love of mine.”
At the old Hollywood Library, before the fire, they had a original script for Wizard of Oz, with notes. That song was notated as having the lyrics of “Oh we love, no-one”.
Slightly off on a tangent (which will be a pun based on the rest). I always enjoyed the song “A Time for Us”, which uses Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet” as tune.
Then I learned that Tchaikovsky:
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[li]was gay[/li][li]wrote it to a young prince who was probably his lover[/li][/ul]
Now when I hear it, the double meanings just keep coming.
♫… as we unveil the love we now must hide…♫ :eek:
The original was a representation of the constellation and had seven, representing the seven partners. Then there were corporate changes, and now the logo is six stars, one larger than the rest, and not arranged in the constellation.
And yet it seems to get heavily used in Fourth of July celebrations. Most folks also miss the revelation you found.
In a simulation game I enjoy there is a spell for creating gold. When invoked, the narrator voice intones “Expressus Americanum”. :smack:
Guilty as charged!
“… Mrs. Freyda Wotan …”
Listened to it just the other day.
As Holmes puts it in the recent movie: “High-functioning sociopath”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle indicated that Holmes was based on a doctor he had known
Named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher, in this case Calvin is the one associated with the phrase “Nasty, brutish, and short.”
Twinkle and ABCD are the same, but in Black Sheep, the measures are inverted. If you sing/hum/play it as [Yes, sir, yes, sir] [Three bags full] [Bah Bah black sheep] [Have you any wool?] you get the other tune.
No that was turkeys.
“I swear to God I thought they could fly!” :eek:
My connotation of the terms is that the fluffy thing is the comforter, and the “pillowcase” thing over it is the duvet.
Lonnegan is probably going to figure out what happened at some point. There’ll be no mention of the killings in the next day’s newspapers. If Snyder (Charles Durning) calls in some backup there’ll be no one at the crime scene when they get there. Someone is liable to recognize the name Henry Gondorff and tell him he’s a con man. And when Lonnegan does find out, the fact that he made the last bet to win and the horse finished second is probably not going to help. He doesn’t strike me as the forgiving sort.
MacLir, please note that the posts you are quoiting are several years old. The conversation has moved on since then. Some of the people might not even be here any longer.
And if you really feel a need to reply, please don’t use a separate post for each. Please put them all in a single post.