FOB (Continued from ‘Ya tink it easy’)
By Geoff Burrowes
When I left school my first job was at B.G. Insurance Agencies. My boss was a friend of my dad’s, a big strapping man called Clarence Hill and my manager was Ayube Khan a kind, gentle young man (we were all young then) who taught me the job. We were an Insurance agency representing, among others, Lloyds of London. We insured shipped cargos and when clients requested insurance we has to calculate the premiums. One of the categories was F.O.B. which meant “Freight On Board”! The FOB I’m telling you about was not that!
It meant Fresh Off the Boat! All immigrants experience this regardless of how they got here! In a new country the food is different, customs are different, the patterns of speech are different and we had to know that yachtins are referred to as sneakers and singlets were wife-beaters or tshirts! Continue reading
Jeopardy: How pro gambler – James Holzhauer – ‘cracked’ a US game show
30 April 2019 – BBC News
James Holzhauer
Jeopardy – the iconic US trivia game show where contestants must answer clues “in the form of a question” – has never come across a contestant quite like professional gambler James Holzhauer in the decades it has been on air, writes Jonathan Berr.
Not only has Mr Holzhauer become only the second contestant in the show’s history to earn more than $1m (£773,000) in one go, he has also hit the milestone over his multi-game spree faster than anyone in the show’s history.
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