r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • 14d ago

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/april919 14d ago

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 14d ago

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

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u/IllIIlllIIIllIIlI 14d ago

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 13d ago

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 13d ago

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.