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  1. Email relating to a rejected work trip hotel booking I just received.

    Quoted post said:


    Unfortunately the service that has been requested is unable to be confirmed.
    Please contact AOT Hotels on AOT Hotels Customer Care 1300 767 869 or log onto the website aothotels.com.au to arrange an alternative.

    Best regards
    Brijesh Poojary
    AOT Hotels

    No [censored] way is that a real name.

  2. So did you get another hotel classic, or did you have to sleep on the street?

  3. Sleeping in the street seems to be a popular option in Melbourne at the moment. Why don't they just build more hotel rooms or something?

  4. Another Dead Pool Fail - Bill Mollison, father of permaculture died today.

  5. Geez, can't believe no-one had him, matagi 😄

  6. Hey, about as good as some of the minor celebrities we've missed. :-p

  7. matagi said:

    Another Dead Pool Fail - Bill Mollison, father of permaculture died today.

    He can now return his nutrients to the earth and grow us a nice crop of potatoes.

  8. DPF? Arnold Palmer

  9. At least he is someone we've actually heard of.

  10. TAN DEAD POOL 2016

    Matagi
    - Phil the Greek, Bob Hawke
    Lama - Bill Cosby, Bert Newton, Liza Minelli.
    Paul - Michael Schumacher, Raymond Poulidor, Robert Pirsig
    classic1 - Billy Graham, Olivia De Havilland, Nancy Reagan
    62vette
    - Jimmy Carter, Keith Richards, Betty White
    roshea - Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, Zsa Zsa Gabor
    (keeping 2 of 3 from last year)
    Wilchemy - Jeannie Pratt, Jeanne Little, & Barbara Eden (gone with a theme this year haha)
    531Aussie - John Goodman, Henry Kissinger
    Steve - Kirk Douglas, Clive Palmer, Val Kilmer

    So much fail. I thought we were on to a stack of winners this year .

  11. Damned inconsiderate oldies! Don't they know they're in our Dead Pool and should hurry up and cark it?

  12. Maybe we will have a big final quarter for the year.

  13. My two remaining picks have a combined age of [censored] 198.

    Die you selfish [censored].

  14. My brownlow votes.

    Geelong, P Dangerfield's missus' [censored]. 3 votes

  15. M Murphy's babe J Habermann; 4 votes

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  16. Well; what a lovely time for pickchor embedding to start working again.

  17. paulambry said:

    M Murphy's babe J Habermann; 4 votes

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    Minus 5 votes. The rumour is the duck has been tapping it behind Murphy's back. And Murphy is still marrying her.

    No way are those [censored] real

  18. Neither are the lips.

  19. Which lips? What do you know that we don't?

  20. Gday cunz. It's my birfdey in a couple of hours and I'm pretty [censored] happy none of you cunz have picked me in your dead pool yet.
    Love yas.

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