Posted by admin in Stories on 01. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
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One of the stories we’ve been sent recently, concerns an avid bingo player, Jilll, who always sat in the same chair when she went to her local bingo hall. She’d been going several evenings a week for quite a few years, and was well-known to the staff and her fellow players.
One evening, however, a group [...]
Posted by admin in Feedback on 22. May, 2010
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Many of you have been in touch to tell us how much you love playing online bingo. Not a big surprise to us, of course, but it’s always nice to have people get back to us with this kind of info. We’ve also had some kind words about our blog posts and the articles we’re [...]
Read MorePosted by admin in General on 12. May, 2010
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Well, finally normal service is resumed, and we have a Prime Minister in place again. (We’ll leave it up to you to debate for yourselves whether this new one was properly “elected” or not!). Having browsed through the main parties’ manifestos, we can tell you there’s precious little about our favourite pastime in there, so [...]
Read MorePosted by admin in General on 08. May, 2010
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Seems like the party leaders are going to be pretty busy over the weekend trying to sort out what happens next. One of our team here in the office told us they remembered the last time there was a hung parliament in the UK, back in 1974.
Apparently, there was no internet then (ahem), so people [...]
Posted by admin in Bingo Info on 31. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
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84 is traditionally called with the phrase “seven dozen”, as a result of it being 7 multiplied by 12 (a dozen) = 84. The number 85 is usually called with the phrase “staying alive”. There is obviously quite a famous film of this name, starring John Travolta, but as the film was only released in [...]
Read MorePosted by admin in Bingo Info on 30. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
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The traditional call for the number 81 is simply “stop and run”, which is just another rhyming call. 82 is either “straight on through” – which again we can only assume is a simple rhyme – or “fat lady with a duck”. This refers to the fact that the figure ‘8′ could be seen to [...]
Read MorePosted by admin in Bingo Info on 29. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
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The traditional nickname for the bingo number 79 is “one more time”. We can’t find any reference to anything in particular here, except for the fact that it is a sort of a rhyme. 80 has a few possible calls – “eight and blank”, “blind eighty”, or more controversially “Gandhi’s breakfast”.
“Eight and blank” is fairly [...]
Posted by admin in Bingo Info on 28. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
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The number 78 is usually called alongside the nickname “Heaven’s gate”. Heaven features in various bingo and non-bingo related numerical phrases (eg “seventh Heaven”), so this is presumably a simple reference to that. Also, it could possibly be suggested that the number 8 might represent the gate to Heaven.
Interestingly, “Heaven’s Gate” is also widely regarded [...]
