jsearles and Chinamaniac debate about the value of his WSOP pieces

[Steve-O]

Vegas offered a bet proclaiming that he could find 25 offending posts where I used both words incorrectly. I pounced on this knowing he could in fact not do so. If anyone tried to later change the parameters of the offered bet it was him.

I have said this before and I will say it again, if Vegas had said "I have a better bet for you... How about I find, lets say 15 posts, where you have used either of those two words incorrectly?" then I would never have taken the bet. He did however say "where you have used those two words incorrectly."

Steve-O, you keep implying that I entered into this thing hoping to get it voided from the outset. That couldnt be further from the truth. I entered into a bet hoping to win it! And that bet was that Vegas could not find 25 posts with multiple errors.

I'm starting to understand the problem, your reading comprehension is terri-bad. I said the "best you can hope for is the bet is voided", I assumed at one point in the thread that is what you wanted when you actually wanted more (to win) which I didn't think you would even attempt to try because it's one of the biggest leaps of faith I have ever seen.

There is no usage of the word "BOTH" in the post by Vegas you keep linking to, that was a separate post by someone else.

"used those two" is a lot closer to an interpretation of both then it is to either

Not when you consider all of the other posts; you can't use that single sentence and throw away everything before and after it. This isn't a signed contract so intent is very important. When viewed as a whole it's crystal clear what the bet was for. What your trying to say is more like someone agreeing to sell a car and the next day they come to your house and take it, saying, "well I said you could buy my car for $10,000, but we never agreed on how long this is for. It was only for a day."

Congratulations folks, you are now reading the most replied to thread in PFA history!

Steve, I agree that intent is of the utmost importance. I intend/ed to win a bet regarding if Vegas could find posts containing misuses of "those two words."

You analogy is again poor. Please respond to my analogy. If you offered me $100 and told me to get a picture of "those two having sex" isnt it implied that you mean together? When you use a phrase such as that you cant then later seperate the two.

If that is the only statement than either interpretation is correct, but with 15 posts before it clarifying what the spirit of the wager is than it would be clear.

I tried to see if a day in between would have you come to your senses, but since it hasn't (and you ared still somehow making the claim you won the bet) I'll once again bow out of the conversation, since I'm making more progress debating my desk.