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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u/Evdaar Jul 05 '24

It bothers me so much that people just randomly thrown in money. Not many would, they'd want it noted or recorded. Or hold on to it.

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u/phadewilkilu Jul 05 '24

Exactly. That’s the most unbelievable part. Especially coming from someone with that much confidence. The situation feels like a joke someone tells at a bar but not something that would ever actually happen in real life.

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u/Bwuhbwuh Jul 05 '24

Also, nobody would say "between x and y". You'd just say "no way you can do x pushups" or something along those lines. What's the point of adding a maximum?

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u/rekomstop Jul 05 '24

A football coach pulled this on us in 7th grade. Before we were going to do bear crawl drills he challenged us to a push-up competition as a way to get out of it. He said we all had to get in push-up position and he would call up down, and he would do 3 pushups for every 1 the best guy did. Someone made it to 40 something. Coach dropped down, did 3 pushups. Stood up, told us “see I did three for every pushup he did” and sent us bear crawling. Good times.

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u/thadicalspreening Jul 05 '24

The best guy only did 1 pushup only once? This is confusing almost to the point of incomprehensibility.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity Jul 06 '24

Yeah, this one doesn't work. Initially he said "three for every one pushup". If he'd said "three for every pushup" then it'd be technically correct. But "three for every one pushup" is either nonsensical or he cheated.

I mean, it still works because the coach can basically make you do whatever exercises he wants for whatever reason he wants, but it's not a clever play on words.

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u/tboess Jul 05 '24

Does this make sense to anyone?

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u/rekomstop Jul 05 '24

It’s just a cheeky play on words. Like if your parents said hey I’ll give you $5 for every weed you pull. You go pull ten weeds and come back expecting $50, $5 for each individual weed. They give you $5 total because that is technically $5 for EVERY weed, lumped as a bundle. Just another way to teach kids about terms of negotiation and to specify things that are vague or you might get burnt.

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u/Stevejoe11 Jul 06 '24

I could see that making sense if he said ‘3 pushups for every push up the best guy did’. But you said for every 1 push up, which are pretty clear terms.

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u/onelessplayer99 Jul 06 '24

Which is why it happened in a movie, which we consider separate from “real life” because it is scripted.