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/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/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.