PlayerRep said:
Jesse Welcher, he shall now be known as.
SMH. You have absolutely no idea how a bet works do you? I will try to explain the concept of betting in the most basic terms so you can better understand it. First, an offer to bet or wager on something for a certain amount of money (the stake) is made by say a high roller like PR. (In this case $100, whether a journalist was "hospitalized" as a result of having been assaulted by then Congressman Greg Bodyslam). Second, the offer is ratified when accepted by Jesse, and that's how a bet is made. I will illustrate it again for you below to make it even easier to understand:
1. Offer by PR: "I'm happy to bet you $100 that he wasn't hospitalized, and I know I
can prove (sic) with a newspaper article. Put up or shut up on that bet,
Jesse/Dutch"
2. Acceptance by Jesse: "I'll take that bet fat man, and don't going chickening out on
me like you did last time when you didn't show up at the Mo Club at 5:00 pm like
you said you would" (This is the "put up" part because Jesse took the bet)
3. Because a wager, as drafted by PR was agreed to by Jesse, a contract was made and that
should have been the end of it or the part where PR "shuts up" (In state college business law
classes the technical legal jargon "a deal is deal" is often used)
4. Jesse, aware that PR is incapable of losing gracefully or admitting a mistake, something to
do with cluster b disorders, (tourist or grizpsyche can explain this for egriz
if they care to) put this caveat in a whereas after the deal was made:
“I know you think you are a big shot attorney and I also know you will try
and weasel your way out of the wager with some lawyer double talk
after you lose, but I’m old school and my word is my bond and I
don’t welch on bets”
And as predicted by Jesse (and cluster b) comes the weasel/lawyer double talk part by PR. Realizing he was going to lose the bet because “hospitalized” as used in the NYT's article simply means he went to a hospital for treatment. Knowing this, PR to tried to weasel out of the bet by lawyerly defining the term “hospitalized” after the bet had been accepted by Jesse (because he assumed incorrectly, that PR knew how to bet or draft a contract) (PR claims to have matriculated at Stanford which I guess is a decent enough school. He also claims to have been involved in Montana Gov. Bodyslams IPO and sale, which I now doubt after seeing his sloppy draftsmanship) I will illustrate the weasel/lawyer part below:
4. Weasel by PR: “Okay, deal and bet, subject to.my edits (above), and egriz not
Sask will decide (Sask is biased). I will leave my $100 with Shane.” (below are his weasel/lawyer edits)
[It is understood that being looked at after the incident at ER/hospital, having
elbow x-rayed, and being released within a couple hours or so is not being
"hospitalized" for purpose of this bet. Hospitalized is being formally admitted to
the hospital spending the night]
The problem for PR is he made an offer, and as CDA can educate
us again, the old canons of strict construction interpret an ambiguity (in this wager the meaning of “hospitalized”) against the weasel/lawyer who drafted it, in this case PR.
So dear readers a bet was made, accepted and a weasel/lawyer
move was predictably made by PR to get out of it (his own bet) He will try and claim victory (see again, cluster b) until the cows come home or until the fellas down at the land grant college win another chipper.
I really wish this was the end of this deal, but PR will continue to weasel, arguing what does or doesn't
“hospitalized” mean and that the NYT's is wrong in its usage of the word because
he has a newspaper article to prove it blah, blah, blah.....................
So the lesson for any children reading this is don't waste your time wagering with a weasel/lawyer even when a deal is a deal. And in 1, 2, 3................here he comes now with his lame ass retort. lol
PS: Jesse left $100 at the Mo Club with Ryan on Sunday.