Anyone fancy odds on Obama's Apollo 11 'confession'?BOOKMAKER William Hill The name William Hill may refer to the following: People
tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. by punters who believe the lunar landings were faked, offering 500/1 President Obama will admit they were a hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. . "There are a lot of people out there who believe that the Gover nment faked it and Obama is perhaps the type of person who would come clean," said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe. The first time man walked on the moon was a costly day for the bookmaker, paying out pounds 100,000 to punters who had taken odds of up to 1,000/1 for man to walk on the Moon by January 1, 1970. Biggest winner was David Threlfall, who staked pounds 10, at odds of 1000/1, winning a cool pounds 10,000, with which he bought a sports car. Scottish scientist, Professor Archie Roy, took advantage of his inside information on the space programme to win pounds 1,200 - sufficient to pay half the cost of a house he was buying. "Mr Threlfall staked his bet in 1964, when there was little belief that man would indeed walk on the Moon any time soon. He was almost laughed out of the shop, but within a few short years he was the one with the smile on his face," said Hill's. |
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