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Beer Bet
Posted by tgirsch

For the record, I’ve made a beer bet with SayUncle that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. Much like my Super Bowl bet (in which, at the start of the playoffs, I bet lunch that the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, against a guy who said they wouldn’t), I tried to leverage the fact that I virtually always lose bets to my advantage by betting for the outcome I don’t want. This way, I win either way. Preferred outcome is, Obama wins, and I owe Uncle a beer. If Clinton wins, I don’t get my preferred candidate, but at least I get a free beer.

(And, if I know Uncle, he’ll probably also take me out shooting. And since this is the South, the shooting will probably happen after the beer…)

UPDATE: Uncle’s also betting a beer that McCain will be our next president. Against my logic above, I’m willing to take him up on that one, too. Now I just have to plan a November/December trip to East Tennessee to collect and/or pay up. (It’s against Beer Bet Etiquette to let offsetting beers cancel one another out…)

February 7th, 2008 Politics, Bloggin | one comment