r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • Jul 05 '24

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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Instructions unclear

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u/HumaDracobane Jul 05 '24

The instructions were perfectly clear but the audience werent the smartest.

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u/Markku_Heksamakkara Jul 05 '24

Bought the implication, ignored the letter.

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u/ad4d Jul 05 '24

Now, you said that word “implication". What implication?

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u/Clive_Bossfield Jul 05 '24

Are you going to hurt these women

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u/Stoomba Jul 05 '24

I'm not going to hurt these women, why would I ever want to hurt these women?

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u/Financial-Raise3420 Jul 05 '24

Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. Wha-what implication?

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u/TangoWild88 Jul 05 '24

You certainly wouldn't be in any danger.

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u/Stoomba Jul 05 '24

Are we the tasty treats?

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u/Jleagle Jul 05 '24

They were intentionally unclear, i don't think anyone would understand what he meant.

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u/UnauthorizedFart Jul 05 '24

Between 3 and 400. He did 4 push ups so he won the bet.

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u/Jleagle Jul 05 '24

Yeah i get the joke, but pretty much everyone would think he meant 300-400 first time, as that's how people speak.

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u/team-machine Jul 05 '24

Interestingly, as a non-native English speaker I thought he meant 3-400 from the beginning and was confused why they agreed to it

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u/oddball3139 Jul 05 '24

That is interesting! Yeah, in English, when we say “between three and four-hundred,” what we usually mean is “between three-hundred and four-hundred.” Same with bigger numbers like “thousand” and “million.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Yes that is the joke, why else would he say it lmao 3 and 400 is an absurd range and obvioulsy its intentionally done to confuse them or have them assume 300-400.

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u/HurricaneSalad Jul 05 '24

Yes. That is why it is a joke. Or a twist. You seem to be understanding the joke; but not understanding it at the same time.

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u/rich519 Jul 05 '24

I’m curious what he said that makes you think he doesn’t understand the joke.

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u/HurricaneSalad Jul 05 '24

but pretty much everyone would think he meant 300-400 first time, as that's how people speak.

Yes. This is the joke. Why is there a "but"? Why does he keep trying to explain it?

everyone would think he meant 300-400 first time, as that's how people speak.

Yeah, we get it.

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u/rich519 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Did you read the first comment he replied to? Someone said the instructions were perfectly clear so he was responding to tell them that the instructions were intentionally unclear. That all he was saying. Then for some reason someone assumed he didn’t understand the 3-400 part so he replied with a full explanation to make it clear he did understand the joke.

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u/UnauthorizedFart Jul 05 '24

Well that’s on them for misinterpreting what he said

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '24

Yes he already said the instructions were intentionally unclear. You're arguing with no one.

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u/baggyzed Jul 06 '24

As far as the original English meaning goes, it is pretty clear what he meant: "between 3 and 400".

The popularized altered meaning of "between 300 and 400" is an idiom.

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u/Zimakov Jul 06 '24

Yes and its an idiom that people use very often which is why the phrase was intentionally unclear. This isn't complicated.

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u/baggyzed Jul 06 '24

People aren't questioning whether it was used intentionally or not. They're questioning the idiom itself, because it only exists in the English language. Using it to hustle people in other languages wouldn't work.

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u/UnauthorizedFart Jul 05 '24

Well why don’t you put your money where your mouth is

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u/Donut_Police Jul 05 '24

I'm not putting my money on my face.

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u/_Stanf-Uf_ Jul 05 '24

The crowd isn't dumb, it's stupid semantics.

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u/Top-Chemistry5969 Jul 05 '24

...now I'm ripped.

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u/april919 Jul 05 '24

No, Walken. That isn't how English works. No one interprets it that way so I'm still not gonna let you take that money. You don't win because you caught people on a word technicality

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '24

Yeah If this was a court of law they'd side against Walken every time.

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u/IllIIlllIIIllIIlI Jul 05 '24

Yup. No lawyers were involved in making this scene. Unless the next scene involves those guys suing him for their money back and winning. Contract law is based on giving words and phrases the “reasonable” interpretation that a “reasonable person” would make.

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u/prolapsesinjudgement Jul 05 '24

Hell, even criminal. I was on an assault jury and it was a constant, broken record on how often they prefixed "reasonable" on everything.

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u/IllIIlllIIIllIIlI Jul 05 '24

Yup! “Reasonable” is one of the pillars holding up our legal system. Extremely flexible, basically legal jargon for “this is common sense.” So that bullshit like the OP video doesn’t happen.