Super Franky

[hawkida]

I have Super Franky in the office Grand National sweepstake. What sort of a name is Super Franky?! Oh well, fingers crossed.

Comments

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

There aren't enough people here to do a sweepstake. How crap is that.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Neither did we, I assume. They kept asking if we wanted a second horse.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

We decided to do one in the pub this evening.
Me and four others.

So we have ten horses each, allocated randomly.
At stake - a mere ?2.50 each.

[lobotomymonkey.livejournal.com]

Can you give a cultural translation?

What's "Grand National sweepstake" and who is "Super Franky"?

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

The Grand National is a horse race. Big one. People do sweepstakes on it. So we all throw in some money and get a random horse allocated - if your horse wins you get the money.

I have no idea who Super Franky is - it's just a stupid horse name.

[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

what, you've never seen "National Velvet"?

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Uh, I haven't.

[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

it's a classic! one of those good old gooey sweet happy everyone-gets-what-they-deserve-in-the-end movies. here, have an imdb link (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0037120)

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

I've got Bindaree...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Well congratulations, then.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Ker-ching!