No worries, Dave. We do plenty of fence-sitting here in the States.....

Diana

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
...
Oops! Cultural slang - sorry Ray & others. Horse racing for a start - a
modest
each way bet. "Two bob" from the days before we went to decimal
currency - a
two shilling piece (20 cents today) was known as "two bob", from our
British
heritage. Not sure of the etymology of "bob". So today, if you're
sitting on
the fence (I hope that's not another bit of local patois?) you're "having
two
bob each way".

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:34:49 GMT, "Ray B" wrote:

Maybe they (Julian?) just got tired of "bobbing".
Dave Gillingham
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