Look, I'm not going to go search all day nailing down exactly what was said by day/time group...
but here's a couple for you:
Nash:
"Now, if it gets into the 6 months or a year range...."
That works for me too Toad. The point is whether they're there or not... not how fast the team can dig them up. It's along the same lines as the "reasonable people can conclude" thing (wrt the WMD)... which you were fair with. So lets use the same standard for the timing as well.
Nash:
Speaking of the French... just give the month to straffo. Poor guy has taken enough abuse over this entire thing I figure..
Toad:
Done.
Straffo is your charity. WpnX is mine.
Straffo: Nash I prefer you to give money to Handicap International or MSF.
No further posts by you after you named Straffo. No further posts by you after Straffo deferred to charity. No "reckoning" needed.
You gave
the month to Straffo and never rescinded that. That, as you will see if you look at the thread, is what I agreed to do: give the month to Straffo. (Three months actually... $45, same as WpnX would/will get.)
If he doesn't want it, that isn't your or my problem.. that was the bet.
I'd say by the terms of our bet, mutually agreed, that I should send the money to Straffo's AH account for 3 "free" months.
However, as a courtesy, I would let him send it to charity, either himself or I'll do it for him.Perhaps he takes PayPal. Let him use it to light a cigar. It's HIS money. You gave it to him, I agreed to that and it never changed.
Letter writing? Yeah, it was in there. I'll write a letter to the Prez and appropriate House/Senate represenatives. I'll write what I feel
at that stage of the investigation. That will fulfill the requirement and I do recall saying I'd send YOU a copy which would not be for further dissemination. There's no point in posting it here as there wouldn't really be any rational replies to what is basically my opinon. It'd just be another flamefest. Yawn.
I will therfore NOT be required to send you the one I'll be sending in the Spring time frame when I'll REALLY be pissed if no WMD have turned up.
It will be as you have chosen though. What I was expecting was that you'd want the really nasty letter. However, your eager anticipation seems to require something more immediate in the way of gratification, so you may have the much more sanguine version. If you win.
YOU are picking what you perceive to be "the toothless version." You have no idea what I'm going to say but you've already determined it will be "toothless". I said, and any review of the discussion will show, that I'll be outraged in "six months to a year." Did we agree that you would write the content or edit for me? I don't remember that.........
Well, it's 3 months now, you haven't won yet and you may or may not win. We'll see.
But I can tell you now that in six months I'll be much more suspicious but I almost certainly..... without further "suprise" revelations in the news... won't be outraged enough to send the letter you apparently crave until late Spring...about a year.
Which is totally consistent with what I said all along.
But christ Toad - what's with the tone of your post?
Yeah, Nash. $90 is just life and death for me.. it's losing the money. My life is over if I lose these two wagers. Why.. that's about... 13 six packs of the Boulevard Pale Ale I drink. The end is near.
I guess you're just a bit too eager for my taste here. A bit like the local undertaker measuring me up as I drink at the bar with friends.
You post the time limit's up for 10Bears bet and here we are 1/2 way through our time limit and you're telling me what you expect in my letter to my reps?
Yeah... I think it's the blatant overeager noodlesure attitude that leaves a bad taste.
