It was

Basil fawlty

Black cat
You stick with horses like Marcel and Oldenway mate,And you WILL enjoy steady profitability.They want 10 and 20/1 shots on here and like iv'e said before moving out of the first 4 in the market in high class races on a majority of occasions you are on a hiding to nothing.But it's good to see you saw the merits in those 2 horses,Well done.

Basil — There is too much butter on those trays.
Manuel — Que?
Basil — There is too much butter on those trays.
Manuel — No, no, Mr. Fawlty, uno dos tres.

German Guest: Stop talking about the war.
Basil: You started it!
German: No we didn't!
Basil: Yes you did, you invaded Poland.

Yes I need some help here.

I've got the whole collection - 12 in all, but I just can't figure it out.

I must be missing one somehow - was there one called The Key?

sean,
was that sarcasm in the post about investor?

OK

Let me put you out of your misery.

It was Basil Fawlty that said it. But the question was 'who did he say it to?'

Answer: Mrs. Richards
She is the deaf old bat that comes to stay as a guest and wants a room vith a view. Basil points out that the sea view can be found between the land and the sky. What did she expect to see from a Torquay bedroom window? A herd of wilderbeast sweeping majestically...

As her deaf aid fails, he picks up something from the floor and says "Is this a piece of your brain?"

Brilliant!

What else to do on a wet and windy Sunday!

Hi Boozer

Yes, that "don't mention the war" episode was superb.

And the 'Mrs. Richards' episode was also the one where Basil was trying to place a horse bet, trying to give Manuel the selection and stake without Sybil knowing. Classic.

Happy days.

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Hi Investor

Cheers

What I related to was Basil whacking his car with the branch of a tree, one of my brother's favourite childhood anecdotes begins with him being woken by me shouting "come on bath, run!"

"I've told you time and time again... Right. That's it!" <runs off to get branch>

etc...

"Duck's off". <cue music>

No, Greg, not sarcasm,. Just an honest answer.

Investor told us these things. He also implored Gummy to cut the thread.

There can be no logical reason why he would want to post on here.

sean
no disrespect intended here,but,are you new to internet racing forums?
investor you say is a very succesfull pro punter who has all the answers?

Fairly new, Greg. I had my accident in 99 and didn't learn to tap out a line on the computer till 2002.

Since then, I've been a regular user of several.

Whole point is, any can hide behind the anonymity of these boards and we don't really know who the fk any writer is.

We each make up our own minds, but we have to take statements at face-value and then see how they fit with previous and subsequent views.

I just piece together the things that are said.
I'm sure you'll judge for yourself. I do.

Ooops! Made a cock up.
It was 2001 when I learnt to tap out messages on a computer keyboard.

No, not yet Major. I'll give the paperboy a flea in his ear when he turns up.

("Curate" - from the bell tower)

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"Just a minute Vicar" - "The Cat's Pissed on the Matches" !!!


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"Puckoon" - by "Spike Millagen" !

I don't think anythink of note was posted on this thread [on the new board] except for Fulham [with a capital F] spelling it all out.

This the 'Fulham' post...

comments were mine.


The moment youve been waiting for ...

Fulham
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What follows is firstly background de*****ion, then explanation of what I now know VDW kept back for us to discover on our own:

The Golden Section:



We will call the Golden Ratio (or Golden number) after a greek letter, Phi.



There are just two numbers that remain the same when they are squared namely 0 and 1. Other numbers get bigger and some get smaller when we square them. One definition of Phi (the golden section number) is that to square it you just add 1.



PHI (to the power 2) = phi + 1.



In fact, there are two numbers with this property, one is Phi and another is closely related to it when we write out some of its decimal places.



The values of these two numbers are 1·6180339887... and –0·6180339887... You will notice that their decimal parts are identical.


We will name the first value Phi and the second – phi using the first letter to tell us if we want the bigger value (Phi) 1·618... or the smaller one (phi) 0·618.



Note that Phi is just 1+phi. And that phi times Phi is exactly 1.



When we read VDWs writings the horse form mechanisms he used can be found and followed but at no time did he make hard and and fast guidelines available so as to judge one c/f horse in one race a better or worse proposition than another c/f horse in another race. There are no clear or obvious comparative guidelines. But there are clues, VDW was an erudite scholar his use of the term ‘The Golden Key’ is but one signpost.



What VDW will have discovered about the ‘golden’ properties of phi as incorporated by man and nature since the dawn of time:



Most of you will have heard of the Fibonacci numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …… which are formed by adding the last two digits of the sequence to form the next. What perhaps is not always appreciated is that the next step (or class) is approximately the same as multiplying the last number by Phi.



The original problem that Fibonacci, who provides the title for his eponymous numbers, investigated (in the year 1202) was about how fast rabbits could breed in ideal circumstances.



Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits. Suppose that our rabbits never die and that the female always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that Fibonacci posed was... How many pairs will there be in one year?


At the end of the first month, they mate, but there is still one only 1 pair.

At the end of the second month the female produces a new pair, so now there are 2 pairs of rabbits in the field.

At the end of the third month, the original female produces a second pair, making 3 pairs in all in the field.

At the end of the fourth month, the original female has produced yet another new pair, the female born two months ago produces her first pair also, making 5 pairs.

The number of pairs of rabbits in the field at the start of each month is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...



Fibonacci Rectangles and Shell Spirals:



If we could make a picture showing the Fibonacci numbers 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,.. we would start with two small squares of size 1 next to each other. On top of both of these draw a square of size 2 (=1+1). We can now draw a new square - touching both a unit square and the latest square of side 2 - so having sides 3 units long; and then another touching both the 2-square and the 3-square (which has sides of 5 units). We can continue adding squares around the picture, each new square having a side which is as long as the sum of the latest two square's sides. This set of rectangles whose sides are two successive Fibonacci numbers in length and which are composed of squares with sides which are Fibonacci numbers, we will call the Fibonacci Rectangles.

In each square an arc between two of the corners can be drawn and forms a spiral that is a good approximation to a kind of spiral that does appear often in nature. Such spirals are seen in the shape of shells of snails and sea shells and, as we see later, in the arrangment of seeds on flowering plants too. The spiral-in-the-squares makes a line from the centre of the spiral increase by a factor of the golden number in each square. So points on the spiral are 1.618 times as far from the centre after a quarter-turn. In a whole turn the points on a radius out from the center are 1.6184 = 6.854 times further out than when the curve last crossed the same radial line. Once again Phi is used to demark one stage or class to the next.



Petals on flowers:



On many plants, the number of petals is a Fibonacci number:
buttercups have 5 petals; lilies and iris have 3 petals; some delphiniums have 8; corn marigolds have 13 petals; some asters have 21 whereas daisies can be found with 34, 55 or even 89 petals. The distribution of leaves and seeds follow the same dedication to Phi



Human Phi:



“The full-figure representation of man displays a most agreeable harmonyof proportion. This harmony of proportion derives from the remarkable mathematical, geometrical entity, Phi, a proportion variously known to mathematicians, ancient and modern, as the "sacred proportion," the "divine proportion," the "golden section," the "magic Fibonacci number," and "division into extreme and mean ratio." All of which testifies to the import this "divine" entity has had onthe mathematical mind. This proportion is an intrinsic property of the math-geometric complex that serves as the matrix for the configurative delineations of the human skeletal structure, and in that structure dictates a harmonic coadunation of the parts with the whole. “



The human body neatly divides itself into Phi proportions, head to umbilicus to umbilicus to feet. Shoulder to elbow to elbow to finger tip etc etc etc. Those of you unencumbered with excess middle-aged spread might like to undertake the very experiment I have uncovered VDW advocating, of bending down and placing your head between your legs, and if you then look upwards he says you should see where he is coming from!



The monkey is a figure of fun because he lacks the anatomical golden or divine proportion, man/monkey is the example of life with and without its influence.



Perhaps it can be said though that Man, a creature designed by Phi, has most been enriched when he took Phi as a tool to fashion his world and understand its mysteries. The Ancient Greeks used the golden fraction throughout the construction of their Temples. The Parthenon being an example at the very apex of Phi incorporation with its length, breadth, and height as well as their respective divisions being arranged along the lines of 1.6/1.



From his first writings VDW makes us aware that he knows of Fibonacci, citing that same name in relation to staking systems. What I have since learnt is that he looked for Phi to find the key to horse racing. After successfully doing so he then taught us the way to find the horses that should take the test of Phi, though he left unsaid what this final components’ nature was..



Once VDW discovered that Phi is the natural division of development, or specifically of class and order. His task was to find some measure in horse racing that obeyed the rules of Phi.



The criticism of VDWology is unanimous in criticizing its two fundamental ratings, the Ability and the Consistency ratings. And to be honest they seem rather infantile when asked to explain themselves. Even I had begun to revise the worth of the Ability rating when I made the discovery that validates all VDWs’ claims.



The Golden Key:



As you are now all aware the c/f horse is the class horse that is in form. The class part is found by looking amongst the top 3 or 4 rated by the AR and the CR. Remember we must take the top AR first, then check it is amongst the most consistent and so on successively until we have the best AR horse that is consistent. We then judge if it is also considered to be in form. If it is it is the c/f horse.



However some c/f horses are better than others. Not surprising because the respective ratings that are used to find them are never the same. But VDW gave us a rating that responds to Phi. And this same rating can unambiguously give us ‘The winner In The race’.



It is exactly this much scorned Ability rating that responds to Phi.



VDW discovered a way to find Phi in horseracing, and with the discovery the resulting benefits.



When a horse has an AR 1.6 (or more) times bigger than the 2nd c/f horse it nearly always wins.

This is ‘The Winner In The Race’ This Is 'The Golden Key’.



spherical nonesense.
Ness.