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I'll take that bet

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

07:00 / 02.05.05

Last night I bet someone twenty pounds when they insisted Hound of the Baskervilles wasn't a Sherlok Holmes novel.

Mourne Kransky

07:12 / 02.05.05

I'll bet you twenty pounds that Sherlok has a c in it.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

08:01 / 02.05.05

...fuck.

doglikesparky

09:17 / 02.05.05

Once I had a 10 pound bet with someone who insisted that Elton John wrote Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

agvvv

10:46 / 02.05.05

So can I meet these people?

Bear

10:48 / 02.05.05

I once had to pay up a bottle of White Lighning because I was sure that Lando Calrissian and Apollo Creed where played by the same actor.

Haus of Mystery

10:49 / 02.05.05

Giving away a bottle of White Lightning makes you a winner my friend.

Jack Fear

11:26 / 02.05.05

My wife still insists, despite seeing evidence to the contrary in print, that Kurt Cobain and I have the same birthdate. In fact he was older by four days. I suppose I could bet her cash money on this fact, but she would refuse to accpt the evidence.

My mother-in-law labored for years—perhaps still does—under the misconception that, his "Scotland Forever" tattoo notwithstanding, Sean Connery is in fact Welsh. Good thing for her I have a policy against gambling with extended family.

Whisky Priestess

16:47 / 02.05.05

I very much enjoyed winning a bet with my other half, who insisted that the following line was from Julius Caesar:

"The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets"

... when of course (as any fule kno) it is from Hamlet, I, i.

Triplets

16:59 / 02.05.05

I once had to pay up a bottle of White Lighning because I was sure that Lando Calrissian and Apollo Creed where played by the same actor.

I made the same mistake. Being in work at the time I only paid in dignity dollars.

Sekhmet

17:04 / 02.05.05

I won a beer in a bet against a guy who didn't know Georgia was the name of a country. In fact, he ended up handing out a whole six-pack to other parties in the same bet, so certain was he of his position.

Thank you, American public education system.

Char Aina

01:27 / 04.05.05

didnt anyone ever tell you kids a gentleman never bets on a certainty?
clearly you're all a pack of cads, brigands, philanderers, hooligans, bounders, knaves, boors, and good-for-nothing ne'er do wells.
and rakes.
i think some of you are rakes.

i once bet my girlfriend a tenner that anna walker was not anneka rice with a new surname.

she has still to pay me.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

01:37 / 04.05.05

To show that I am a horrible person...I used to bet on if the kids at the juvenile justice facility I worked in knew basic information like "What two countries border the US" or "What is frozen water called".

I'd feel bad about it, but I would make about $15 a night, and that paid for gas and supper.

11:14 / 04.05.05

I lost fifty pence that they weren't going to bring Dirty Zombie Den back to Eastenders.
It was a basic error - my challenger thought Den would come back because it was in Heat magazine, whereas I thought he wouldn't because it defied all laws of decency and pissed on every one of their [plummetting] million viewers.
Never bet on a sense of universal justice.

Sekhmet

12:55 / 04.05.05

I'm not a rake, I'm a pirate. A pirate who knows geography.

Arrr.

sleazenation

13:03 / 04.05.05

On the plus side, Ex you still hadn't paid out anything in terms of money or self respect to actually buy HEAT....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:07 / 04.05.05

So who's betting on the election? (Bear in mind my one experience with actual, in-a-betting-shop gambling was when I drunkenly put twenty quid on Yeovil Town to beat Liverpool... we wuz robbed...)

Triplets

08:59 / 05.05.05

I've been told that betting shops will take my bet on "Michael Jackson to top himself if convicted". Entertaining and lucrative!

Benny the Ball

09:19 / 05.05.05

I once bet my friends younger brother that he couldn't cycle down a hill blindfolded. He thought he'd made it, but I had the last laugh, I could see the car coming! Still, he only broke his arm or something.

sleazenation

09:53 / 05.05.05

Froim what I've heard, odds on a Labour victory are such that if you put £10 and they win you will get 30-odd pence in winnings...

All you really need to know about betting is that there are more windows for paying in than there are for paying out...

Shrug

17:48 / 08.05.05

I have a belligerent friend who being one of those combative types will argue black and blue regarding the colour of things, "It's more of a green", she'll say "than gray". Until I counteract with "you do know you're colour blind don't you", so odd she is, so many bets lost I fear.

Spaniel

08:11 / 09.05.05

Friends like that are likely to argue that they didn't bet in the first place, or that they laid your bet, and you theirs.

Infuriating little buggers.

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