I can't believe anyone would TAKE that bet.

If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?

Congrats to that guy. Get some poontang.

Save it for a rainy day

JimStarkBand: If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?


I'm not a betting man, but I think I still know more than you do about betting.

The payment was a triumph.



/screw Fark's new scroll-across ads

"The other half I'm going to spend on myself - booze and fags probably - I don't have anything to lose."

Heh.

"The other half I'm going to spend on myself - booze and fags probably - I don't have anything to lose."

I think by 'fag' he means cigarrettes?.

/Otherwise
//A bear?

So um... what's that in real money again?

JimStarkBand: If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?

I'm also not a betting man, but I believe most betting parlors (read: ALL) collect the bet beforehand. Thus, they were paid 100 pounds when they took the bet.

Also, it's more than 5,000 pounds of free publicity.

amanogowa: So um... what's that in real money again?

It's already in real money, but in monopoly money it's $9,894.50.

;)

ral315: JimStarkBand: If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?

I'm also not a betting man, but I believe most betting parlors (read: ALL) collect the bet beforehand. Thus, they were paid 100 pounds when they took the bet.

Also, it's more than 5,000 pounds of free publicity.

Um... it's not free publicity, now is it? it is 5,000 pounds of publicity.

/just at a good pound-publicity rate.
//How much does a publicity weigh, normally, anyway?

This wasn't some back alley bookie that he was betting through. So, odds are, he put the money up up front.

EvilPete: amanogowa: So um... what's that in real money again?

It's already in real money, but in monopoly money it's $9,894.50.

;)

Well, I guess monopoly money is heavier than I thought ;-)


Let me re-phrase: How much is that in an actual international currency like the euro or usd again?

We all die sometime.

/party pooper

yeah, fags tend to give you terminal diseases

There's a whole industry around this. They're called viatical settlements and got really popular in the mid 1980s when AIDS got really big.

I wonder if a vampire could collect life insurance? I mean yeah a vampire comes back to life, but technically they have to die first.

Fags are free here, he should check Craigslist.

amanogowa: So um... what's that in real money again?

You should be ashamed to suggest that our US currency is "real money" anymore.

CygnusDarius: I think by 'fag' he means cigarrettes?.

Would somebody tell that "cigarette" to shut up?

amanogowa: Let me re-phrase: How much is that in an actual international currency like the euro or usd again?

I think you overloaded my idiotometer.

ah3133: I wonder if a vampire could collect life insurance? I mean yeah a vampire comes back to life, but technically they have to die first.

Different identities. Fakes a 'death (death by gunshot, death by choking, death by severe mauling of a mob of gay albino midgets...)' and collects the money via minion/lover/vampire bride/goth groupie vampire wannabe.

ral315: JimStarkBand: If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?

I'm also not a betting man, but I believe most betting parlors (read: ALL) collect the bet beforehand. Thus, they were paid 100 pounds when they took the bet.

Also, it's more than 5,000 pounds of free publicity.

It should be noted that I've been drinking.

/::Shutting up now::

Spud Boy: Fags are free here, he should check Craigslist.

WIN!

He should spend it on biatches.

I was going to make a joke about him buying fags... But I see that was jumped on like Amy Crackhouse jumps on an overturned box of heroine filled syringes.

xen0blue: yeah, fags tend to give you terminal diseases

lung cancer?

fred and steve's steakhouse: fred and steve's steakhouse: "The other half I'm going to spend on myself - booze and fags probably - I don't have anything to lose."

I guess I would try a ladyboy before I bit the big one,But not a simple plain old fag.

Why doth thou provoke us so?

fred and steve's steakhouse: fred and steve's steakhouse: "The other half I'm going to spend on myself - booze and fags probably - I don't have anything to lose."

I guess I would try a ladyboy before I bit the big one,But not a simple plain old fag.

Newsflash: Nobody cares.

CygnusDarius: ah3133: I wonder if a vampire could collect life insurance? I mean yeah a vampire comes back to life, but technically they have to die first.

Different identities. Fakes a 'death (death by gunshot, death by choking, death by severe mauling of a mob of gay albino midgets...)' and collects the money via minion/lover/vampire bride/goth groupie vampire wannabe.

That's good too. So if I ever die and become a vampire, when the suspicious insurance investigator recognizes me, I'll just say, "ah3133? You got the wrong guy ..."
( whip out the death certificate )
"BAM! In your face!"

/staying Aliiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvee!!

EvilPete: amanogowa: So um... what's that in real money again?

It's already in real money, but in monopoly money it's $9,894.50.

;)

American Money, The Canadian Dollar for the 21st century

nucrash: EvilPete: amanogowa: So um... what's that in real money again?

It's already in real money, but in monopoly money it's $9,894.50.

;)

American Money, The Canadian Dollar for the 21st century

Although "Canadian Dollar" is just for bookkeeping purposes, since it's most measured in beaver pelts.

Rude Turnip: There's a whole industry around this. They're called viatical settlements and got really popular in the mid 1980s when AIDS got really big.

look up viatrical settlements in a dictionary or wikipedia. it refers to a settlement on a life insurance policy already in place. you get the part of the settlement before you die. there's no betting involved like in this case.

Now, that's just sick.

Came here for the fag pics and now I'm sorely disappointed in myself.

DavePinFL: Came here for the fag pics and now I'm sorely disappointed in myself.

Ok...

amanogowa: ral315: JimStarkBand: If they lose, they pay 5k, if they win, they collect a gambling debt off the family?

I'm also not a betting man, but I believe most betting parlors (read: ALL) collect the bet beforehand. Thus, they were paid 100 pounds when they took the bet.

Also, it's more than 5,000 pounds of free publicity.

Um... it's not free publicity, now is it? it is 5,000 pounds of publicity.

/just at a good pound-publicity rate.
//How much does a publicity weigh, normally, anyway?

my publicities weigh about 21 grams.

I still giggle at the fags stuff.

/"I have nothing to lose" is what did it for me.
//very easy laugh

No follow up tag? C'mon, the bet WAS announced on Fark, afterall.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3163966
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article394411.ece

Double or nothing?