2018 Dead Pool
January 23rd, 2018 at 9:56:12 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Thanks for the analysis Wizard! Very interesting! |
January 24th, 2018 at 2:51:18 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
I will have to read this later. Meanwhile, who thinks it would be a neat movie if a script was written with 2 people knocking off celebs to win? The President is a fink. |
January 24th, 2018 at 1:22:05 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
January 24th, 2018 at 3:45:25 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | Deadpools were plot devices in a “Dirty Harry” movie, and recently the source of a Marvel superhero’s name. |
January 24th, 2018 at 3:49:08 PM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
I think I'd want to chop the pot if got down to two or three. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
January 24th, 2018 at 3:58:27 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
I'd be dead early so it would not matter. The President is a fink. |
January 24th, 2018 at 4:03:10 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
You could make the final pot even sweeter by having all the participants maintain high return life insurance policies. For a Dumb and Dumber plot they could award it to second place. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
January 24th, 2018 at 4:32:23 PM permalink | |
Ibeatyouraces Member since: May 11, 2017 Threads: 0 Posts: 83 |
There's an episode of King of the Hill that deals with something like this. |
January 24th, 2018 at 6:38:56 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I read there was a Simpson's episode involving one too, where Mr. Burns and Homer's father were the last two in a tontine. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
January 24th, 2018 at 7:35:22 PM permalink | |
Ibeatyouraces Member since: May 11, 2017 Threads: 0 Posts: 83 |
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0778451/?ref_=m_tttr_qt |