Of course, you have the guy deposit the check just like he described. Noooooo f'g waaaaaay do you do a bet like that otherwise. Total schmuck.
On the other hand, I always liked The Gift of the Magi twist of the episode.
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Instead of just one lesson this ep had two. Don't make bets if you know you can't hold up your end of it because there's no such thing as a sure thing. And cheaters never prosper.
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I would have found it a bit suspicious. And I wouldn't have had the motivation to keep it up for a whole year unless I knew for certain I was going to get the money. If I were Tennyson, I would've strangled the guy.
shareYes, that old man was rotton to the core. First (yeh, maybe Tennyson was to talkative and annoying people) the old man insulting him, then the wager on its own where he expects him to drop everything in his life including his wife for a whole year just because he was personally annoying him, then him refusing Tennyson any kind of solid reassurance about getting the money and telling him he just has to take his word, then him taunting Tennyson while he's in the room making comments about his wife, and then of course the worst thing of all at the end of the year screwing him out of the entire $500,000 promised. Who wouldn't have wanted to strangle that old man after that. What he did was lower than low.
share....and then of course the worst thing of all at the end of the year screwing him out of the entire $500,000 promised.
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Tennyson did cheat by severing his vocal cords but nobody including the Colenel knew anything about it until he successfully completed his year being silent. The Colonel still let himself come through without the money when everyone still thought Tennyson genuinely won the bet. Tennyson was sort of an annoying blabbermouth, and he was very stupid for actually commiting himself to such a task with nothing except the Colonel's empty promise. No one with half a brain would agree to such a thing with no type of solid backup and just someone's word, someone that couldn't stand him at that. Now I was thinking that what the Colonel did was very low, if his plan was to swindle him, to never intend to pay him from the start. But I also then thought that what it was is that he was just so confident he would never really need to come up with $500,000 because he was so 100% sure that Tennyson would never be able to make it even close to a year. Cause we saw how shocked he was that he made it.
I did think that Tennyson was too annoyingly talkative, but he wasn't as bad as McNulty in "A kind of stopwatch".
Now I was thinking that what the Colonel did was very low, if his plan was to swindle him, to never intend to pay him from the start. But I also then thought that what it was is that he was just so confident he would never really need to come up with $500,000 because he was so 100% sure that Tennyson would never be able to make it even close to a year.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ~ F Douglassshare
Yeh, that's true. If the Colonel did have the money, Tennyson maybe wouldn't have deserved it because severing his vocal chords was cheating. I was thinking before that he may've still won the bet because in one form or another, he did what the Colonel wanted, he stayed silent for a year.
You're right though, if Tennyson hadn't severed himself, he probably wouldn't have lasted even a week or two. I don't know, if I was truely positive that there would be $500,000 all for me at the end of the year, I might be able to do it. But I would need alot more than just someone's word.
....if I was truely positive that there would be $500,000 all for me at the end of the year, I might be able to do it.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ~ F Douglassshare
Tennyson was a complete moron for accepting the bet and believing the Colonel on just his word and nothing else. Like I said, I would need ALOT more than just someone's word from someone that didn't like me. Does anyone really trust someone they know can't stand them? Especially with something like that kind of a wager?
shareI think I've posted this before (somewhere), but I really don't see Tennyson as cheating. The agreement did not say, "You must remain silent for a year, but you can't cut your vocal chords." That may have been Taylor's intention (if he had thought of it), but he didn't say it. Having said that, I do agree that Tennyson was foolish to just take Taylor's word for it.
shareThe club was an old 19th century style club, and the members were taken on their honor.
They both cheated. Archie did not have the money to bet with. And his tactics in trying to break Tennyson were disgraceful.
Tennyson did not play fair either. Maybe he didn't technically break the rules, but what he did was not in the spirit of sportsmanship, and he paid the price.
He was not a putz. Just a loudmouth braggart/blowhard.