>>>...
>>>>>>>>>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. ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>What, like diluted plutonium or summat?
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>>>>>>That's one choice.
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
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>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?

Well, that, of course, is different.