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I remember when I worked in Churchtown, Dublin there was a betting shop named Dead Cert Bookies right next to O'Mallys Funeral directors.
captain clutterbuck
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Apologies in advance but when I was working someone ran " The Stiff Stakes" . Basically a sweepstake so each week we paid in a pound into a fund and in return drew out the name of an aged celebrity [apologies as this is macabre and on reflection all these years later really insensitive but when you are young and daft] . When the celebrity passed away the person with that name in the draw took the pot . I only mention it only in the context of John's post . The anecdote to the story was the organiser drew Catherine Cookson who was critically ill a few times , went into hospital , recovered and wrote another book much to his ire and in the end someone else died before her so he lost out.
John Shuttleworth refers to such places as Gods waiting room.