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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rbingham2000" data-source="post: 1596035" data-attributes="member: 12947">Bets are always popular.The way you generally do this is make a bet to someone for a goodly sum of money that you can make someone else make an ass of himself or do something uncharacteristic, and then go to that person and make another bet for a lesser sum that you lose, but in the process of doing so win the first bet and come off ahead in the bargain.A classic example of this is the trick described in Quentin Tarantino's joke in Desperado:A drunk makes a bet with a bartender for $300 that he can pee into a glass on the bar a yard or so away without spilling a single drop. The drunk then proceeds to pee all over everything EXCEPT the glass, including the bartender. The bartender, instead of getting mad, proceeds to laugh his ass off because the drunk now owes him $300.But the joke's actually on the bartender, for it turns out that the drunk bet several other guys $500 a piece beforehand that he could pee all over everything including the bartender, and not only wouldn't the bartender be mad about it, he'd be happy.The bet doesn't have to be as crude as the above, but you get the general idea.</blockquote>