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Mental Floss — Bookmaking

Apart from the names, can anyone tell me or identify the difference between a bookmaker and an insurance company. Both are betting on an outcome of something happening or not happening and frame their odds accordingly. A horse in a race for example has its odds framed...
Random Note — Bill Leak

Random Note — Bill Leak

An extract from Chris Mitchell’s column in today’s Australian, October 11, 2021 about the new biography on cartoonist Bill Leak. I specifically like the Barry Humphries line in the introduction about comedians these days as, “unfunny comedians who merely ‘identify’ as...