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The story
On Sunday, September 13, when the Rose Stakes and the St Lite Kinen were run, the famous AA (ASCII-art) character “Exploding Bettor,” Mr. Chudoon, kicked off his regular horse-racing commentary thread on 5ch’s News VIP board. The thread’s signature move: whenever another regular AA character shows up, he brushes them off with his stock line “Take it to go,” all while keeping up a running commentary of his winning bets and his egg sandwich purchases. In Race 9 at Nakayama, his winning reports drew a round of congratulations, while in Race 10 at Hanshin his favorites came in 4th and 5th, narrowly missing a big payout — a day that saw wins and losses tangled together right to the end.
What people said
つ✒📰と the St Lite Kinen! ✨🏆🏇
つ✒💩と
(´🔎ω･`) Take it to go
つ✒📰と
つ💩と
(´🔎ω･`) I said, take it to go
つ✒📰と
っ💣
(´🔎ω･`) And here I am about to launch a massive firework
つ✒📰と
つ🍺
(´🔎ω･`) What a dumb question
つ✒📰と
IT'S HEEERE━━━━(°∀°)━━━━!!!! ("kita," a classic net exclamation for hype)
(´🔎ω･`) I'm planning to win so much I won't even have time to sleep
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IT'S HEEERE━━━━( ･᷄ὢ･᷅ )━━━━!!!!
(´･ω･`) Go skydive without a parachute
(´🔎ω･`) Stop being greedy
つ✒📰と
(´🔎ω･`) You're not supposed to beat JA!
つ✒📰と
(´🔎ω･`) Congrats! I'm winning today too, just watch
つ✒📰と
(´🔎ω･`) Nuh-uh
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(´🔎ω･`) Sure, sure
つ✒📰と
(◍•ᴗ•◍) Congrats! 🎉
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./ *・ω・ヽ Congrats! 🎊
つ✒📰と so tuna mayo egg it is 🥪
(◍•ᴗ•◍) Following your 2nd win, that's a lucky food to make it three-for-three!
How's it going so far?
(´･ω👁🗨`) Break-even
(´🔎ω･`) I've hit a few small ones, so I'm only down 200 yen
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Genuinely thrilled right now
I actually mixed up a Wide bet with an Umaren bet while half-asleep, but it worked out anyway (both are two-horse combination bet types in Japanese racing)
That woke me right up
(´🔎ω･`) Nakayama Race 9? That's a big one, ain't it — Jamaica! (a pun: "isn't it" in Japanese sounds like "Jamaica")
つ✒📰と
Thanks!
Re: #135
That's right
Not quite a big payout, but it lets me take a few more risks now
(´･ω･`) What were the odds?
(´🔎ω･`) I'm gonna keep the streak going too!
つ✒📰と
つ✒📰と
Alright, I'm in 💣
Number 5 was…
Since my picks landed 4th and 5th, that's agonizingly close
Background and context
The VIP board has a long-running culture of commentary threads built around a dedicated AA (ASCII-art) mascot character, and “Exploding Bettor” is one of them. When other regular AA characters show up and get turned away with “Take it to go,” that’s just a fixed running gag that keeps the thread’s camaraderie going — it’s not meant as a fight or a snub. On terminology: a “manbaken” (万馬券) refers to a winning bet that pays out over 10,000 yen, and the reaction to Hanshin Race 10 — “landing 4th and 5th makes it agonizingly close” — points to a heartbreak pattern unique to horse racing, where the horses you picked place well individually but the specific combination still misses. Worth noting: the thread as a whole isn’t promising any surefire betting method or guaranteed outcome — it’s simply a space for live commentary and casual chat. Also, an early post containing sexual content unrelated to the main topic appeared in the thread, but since it has no bearing on the thread’s theme or later developments, it has been left out of this article.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (News VIP) thread “(´🔍ω･`) A Day Off for “Exploding Bettor” Mr. Chudoon.”
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