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>>>>>>>>Listen, I bet you 100:1 in your favour I never get cancer from eating off a plastic spoon every so often.
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>>>>>>>I'll take that bet... just as long as I get to say what you eat off the plastic spoon. ;)
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>>>>>>What, like diluted plutonium or summat?
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>>>>>That's one choice.
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>>>>Now that's not very nice. I thought you were my friend, but you'd rather have me die JUST so you win a bet (which g=hasn't been settled yet - for instance it may be my C$1 vs your ic. For a lousy buck you'd have me die a horrible death!
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>>>Ok, maybe not for a buck, but I figured we were talking something bigger. I thought it might be worth upwords of $50.00 or even $100.00 to me. Let's face it, when you're talking those kinds of numbers, friendship kind of drops down anybody's list a ways.
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>>So, let's see ... If I don't die of cancer, by eating from a plastic spoon occasionally, by the time I die, you give me $50 (but till I die you won't know what I died of)
>>and ... if I do die of cancer by eating from a plastic spoon occasionally, I give you $5,000 (after I'm dead).
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>Oh, WOW!! I though I was only going to get $50.00. At this kind of money, I'd watch my back if I were you. The money goes into escrow. I'm not willing to take the chance that you'll welsh after you're dead. It's hard to fathom, I know, but some unprincipled types actually would use death as an excuse for welshing.

Erm, what if YOU die before I, still claiming, on your death bed, that you can't pay up cos you don't know what I will die of?

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