Harry, you are always after a free holiday, and trying to spend my hard earnt money, where are Frenchy, keith, and Chris, when I need them, it has already cost me a arm and a leg to take my girls to Paris, and to Disneyland, it only16 days away, then there is spending money, whoe is me, will I have enough to bury me?, do you think you lads can have a collection for me to help me pay my way? Ha Ha Ha, I have as much chance, as lighting a fire with snowballs. Sandman Norman
hiya, here we go poverty street calling it’s only the other day you was pulling pay packets out of storage to let us know what you was earning in 1066 i’ll bet they was still full as well norm you can’t take the damned stuff with you,as for my funeral instructions i’ve told the old girl to fold me in half before the rigor mortis sets in and i should fit in the wheely bin, there you go buried on the council tip for nowt,to hell with the co-op. thanks harry long retired.
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hiya, here we go poverty street calling it’s only the other day you was pulling pay packets out of storage to let us know what you was earning in 1066 i’ll bet they was still full as well norm you can’t take the damned stuff with you,as for my funeral instructions i’ve told the old girl to fold me in half before the rigor mortis sets in and i should fit in the wheely bin, there you go buried on the council tip for nowt,to hell with the co-op. thanks harry long retired.
You are lucky Harry,our lass is putting me in an egg timer when I’ve gorn so she can watch me work all day.
hiya, that idea wouldn’t work with me chris i’d be too thick to get from one bulb to the other, her words not mine. thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Norm get off with you, you don’t need a collection all the money you’ve made over the years. Is it right you’ve had to have the sealing in your bedroom raised becouse theres that much money under the bed it is nearly touching thr roof 
Your not getting nervous about all those big rides at Disnyland are you. You take care not to go on the big ones we don’t wont anything to happen to you. By the way has your missis got you insured it costs a fortune to fly people home if anyting go’s wrong, and we wont to be shore theres anough left to be able to give you a good send off
Regards Keith
hiya, DD take no notice of old norm he’ll have money when they are calling the stuff in, he hasn’t spent his sand wobbling fiddle yet and he has unopened wage packets from age 14 tucked away most likely under the bed, it’s said he needs a cherry picker to get into and out of kip there’s that much coin stowed underneath it, so if he’s after a divi up for a send off he’s got more chance of being struck by lightning. thanks harry long retired
Keith I went on space mountain in Florida in 1981, I went 3 times more, but never, ever went on the other times years later, my daughter was 11 at the time, what with hanging on to her, and my glasses, it seemed a eternity, when it stopped, Sally-Ann said that was good, can we go on it again, I just said no!!!. Never keep money under the mattress, make it work for you, shares in the firm you work for, made a packet out of BET, three times, last time when they sold it to Rentakill, then sold their shares before they went down, used to save at “Woolwich” for the shares, even made a profit, when “Barclay’s” bought them out. biggest sorrow, never had the ready’s to buy shares in the old Red & Rust, when the went to National Freight, a couple of thousand pounds of those, were worth later near to £100,000, Boo Hoo, that was one that got away from me. Sandman Norman
hiya, from trucker to stockbroker norm your a crafty old codger, i just can’t live with you wealthy people definitely going to change my ways, i’m going to invest in stocks and shares instead of ladbrokes, thanks harry long retired.
Ladbrokes, I have had afew bets with them, holding my own the last couple of years, but before that, 5p ew lucky 63 = 126 bets 4 winners 1 nr and a 4th that was no good, 50/1, 20/1, 17/2, 10/1, = £1200 plus, the way I bet, it will take them years to get it back. Sandman Norman
hiya, tell you what norm you can send me racing information anytime i can’t pick me nose, your’e a lucky old so & so if you fell off the co-op you’d land in the divi on the other hand if i fell in a barrel of ■■■■ i’d emerge sucking my thumb. thanksharry long retired.
Harry, I got my name, because my dad backed a winner “Black Norman”, so perhaps I have some horse sense, when I was about eight, I backed a grand national winner, Nickle coin at 33/1 2/6p ew, this jewish bookmaker Joe, with his black overcoat and same colour homberg, was illegal one, only phone betting was allowed, I collected £5-13s- 1 -1/2p, this was more than a man’s wage, I done a lot of coke bags on my trolly for that five shillings, Joe said if your boy keeps picking those big winners I will be bankrupt, but he was a wise man, and phoned in a bet of £10 ew, for he told my mum, and gave her a drink, and said let me know if I fancy any big price horses, he has the knack of picking winners. Many times I took my wife and children and mother to the seaside, and got a paper, and picked a run of winners, and it paid for our holiday, and we dined well, and went to the best shows, soon as I lost a couple of times, I would pack it in Ha Ha Ha, I do not like to give it back, once I have got it out of bookies. Sandman Norman
hiya, just back from my investment broker (ladbrokes) and just doubled my money on borderlescott 6/5, most of the nags i back are escapees from the french dinner table or have only got three legs on the days i back them, tell you what norm if your’e not making money playing the violin your’e taking the poor old bookie to the cleaners, have a heart mate leave a few spoils for those who are senior to you and certainly more needy, norm if you ever see an elderly vagrant wearing an old military greatcoat sporting three stripes and liberally plastered in fifth wheel grease please give generously i’ll put all donations to good use and my favourite charity the ( poor childrens fathers beer money association ) thanks in anticipation. thanks harry long retired.
Harry, you must be made of money, because only men of wealth back short odds like that, I have to backodds of 8/1 or more to get 2/1 for a place, I must have had a touch of the sun, when I went a ton down, I sweat with fear, lucky I recouped and came out nearly 30 ahead, I must control myself, and stick to my 5p ew, but this only happened at Doncaster. Sandman Norman
hiya, you’ve never been more wrong norm, me and money have a love hate relationship, i love it, it hates being in my pocket, i’m a believer in you can’t take it with you, i just hope mr ladbroke is looking after it for me and live in hope that one day somebody will post me a sure fire tip with tremendous odds 5/1 will suffice if it’s a certainty then i’ll become a tax exile in some exotic place like the IOM like another on here with a promise of work should i be tempted and hand it all back to the bookie could just see myself tramping over there, with the BRS big rig , dream on. thanks harry long retired.
Harry, all this talking about racing, brings me back to the M/E. One trip to Saudi, I met up with this couple from London, she was a honey blonde,a bit like Barbara Windsor, but both had cockney accents, we went out for a meal and a few drinks, while in Istanbul, and he was telling me a rich arab, want to buy his wife, and offered him three camels, but he refused, he then offered five, but he said no. Martin was his name, and he said if he had offered money, he might have thought about it. I said do you know what you turned down, five camels, who wants them?, they are not just camels, I said, but racing camels, worth at least £ 50,000 each, in total, you turned down over a quarter of a million, bl**ding hell she would have gone if I had have known that, I could have got a newer, younger model with all that spondulix, his wife went mad, and was screaming and shouting, and chasing him around with her highheeled shoes in her hand, aiming at his head, only joking my darling, their is not enough money in the world, to buy you my love. He turned and winked to me, and whispered " Not until I take you back to Saudi Arabia, I left them kissing, by his lorry, and went to bed, H’mm, I offten wonder how they got on■■?. Sandman Norman
hiya, norm if somebody offered me a gold clock for my old lady they’d have no chance, but two she’d have to go. thanks harry long retired.
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hiya, norm if somebody offered me a gold clock for my old lady they’d have no chance, but two she’d have to go. thanks harry long retired.
Now lads,take my advice and hang on to your nearest and dearest.They can be good earners in times of trouble.
Mine went on Sheffield Town Hall steps for a few shifts and came back with £3-18-3d.I said “what tight sod gave you 3d?”
“All of 'em” she said. 
If she sees this I’m dead! 
Hi boys
Your right Chris you should look after your better half. I’ve managed to get mine on an adult education cource in Birmingham so that she will be able to surport me in my old age. From what i see on here Norm seems to be the better off, it must have been all those dodgey deals.I wish I was a pound behind him…
Regards Keith
hiya, well chaps mine still works full time as a carer looking after old folks in their own homes, at 66 i tell her she’s round the twist but she loves it and won’t pack in, i do help out though with the dust pan and brush and load the dishwasher i’ve told her to go on the game but she say’s she wouldn’t be able to pay the punters, unlike our norm i’m destined to remain poor, at 66 the missus is older than some of her patients, thanks harry long retired.
Keith, I beg your pardon, dodgy deals in deed, they was astute business deals, I knew a few chaps, whoe’s firm went bust, and their wives had not recieved any wages, sold their diesel, unit, and trailer and flew back home from Tehran, thats what you call a bit dodgy. Mine was a commershal enterprise, well executed, by a well trained HGV class one TIR driver, to stop the management from taking liberties with the down trodden lorry driver. Amen Sandman Norman