Fred Basset by Alex Graham for June 30, 2010

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    HappyChappy  over 14 years ago

    All religions promote gambling. You give them your hard earned money and they promise you life after death. If that ain’t a gamble, I don’t know what is.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    A way of raising money people will enjoy.

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    runar  over 14 years ago

    What’s the problem with an attached island formed by erosion and wave action?

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    BuzzDog  over 14 years ago

    LOL…good one, runar, good one!

    I’ll admit I had to look it up. I suppose it’s an alternate form of Bingo.

    Never heard of it, and I’m Roman Catholic. Now there’s a religion that knows how to raise money through gambling…anyone want to buy a raffle ticket for my parish’s building fund? :D

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    persil  over 14 years ago

    just a bit of fun and some money for the church.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    What the heck does tombola or tornbola (spelling word) mean? I’ve never heard of that word before. I checked the dictionary via the Internet about that word but it was not in the dictionary. sighhhh! :-/

    Fred, you and your master are lucky to hide the fence while the vicar walked on the sidewalk past you guys. LOLs!

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    By the way, I posted the comment regarding the Chihuahua dog killing by the two Pitbull dogs in the newspaper yesterday. I was the last person to post the comment in the box for Fred Bassett strip (about Yorkie who was so brave to bark at the Gang dogs. I think that strip was so awesome and funny.) The newspaper was about the Chihuahua dog sadly. If you were not read the article yet, here is the link and read it.

    http://www.rgj.com/article/20100629/NEWS13/100629044

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    firedance1 Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Fred’s an agnostic

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    A raffle in which everybody loses except the winner. But it does raise money for a good cause.

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    photoman022  over 14 years ago

    don’t forget people but DOG is GOD spelled backwards–Snoopy taught me that

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    GrimmaTheNome  over 14 years ago

    The usual way to run a tombola is first to ask for donations of lots of prizes. These may be themed e.g. bottles (gleaning anything from ketchup to cola or whisky) or balls (safer for school fairs!) or bric a brac. You then have a set of paired numbered tickets. Those ending with 0 or 5 are stuck to the prizes; all of the counter set are placed in a drum which can be rotated. The player then picks out one or more tickets (usually 1 ticket for 50p, 3 for a pound (sorry, US keyboard no pound sign!). So you have a 2 in 5 chance of winning something somebody else didn’t want ;-)

    A fairly innocuous and non-addictive form of gambling for an organization which probably only exists because some deluded people buy into Pascal’s wager.

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    Thanks Grimma

    Ya larn sumpin every day.

    Given this info its a raffle where everybody wins more or less. If you don’t win you get rid of something you didn’t want.

    COOL!!

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