# Most obnoxious way to pay up on a $10 bet **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325 "2007-04-01T18:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/1 "2007-04-01T18:31:47Z")
The Florida and Ohio State victories last night clinched the victory in this year’s NCAA tournament pool for my roommate. This is the third year in a row that he’s won (10+ people every year), so now he’s insisting that he actually has a knack for filling out a bracket. I contend that being good at picking a 64-team bracket is like being good at rolling dice. His position is unwavering. Therefore, vengeance must be had. So how much does a large container filled with 1000 pennies weigh? Is it too much to lug down to the bank in one trip? Maybe I could give him a quarter a day for the next 40 days. You guys got anything really diabolical? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/2 "2007-04-01T18:34:52Z")
Wipe your ass with a ten dollar bill, stick it to his forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/3 "2007-04-01T18:34:58Z")
A young kid goat should be worth at least ten dollars. Just time him up outside all primitive style and consider the matter settled. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/4 "2007-04-01T18:37:47Z")
Well, I briefly considered giving him [ass pennies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZZj0K5Pjp8). ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/5 "2007-04-01T18:54:21Z")
Pay the $10 equivalent in the most obscure foreign currency you can get hold of. No wait! Multiple foreign currencies! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/6 "2007-04-01T18:56:05Z")
Maybe you should do the honorable thing and accept defeat, and hand him a ten dollar bill that hasn’t been near anyone’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/7 "2007-04-01T19:07:53Z")
Mature answer: What **friedo** said. Immature answer: Get $10 worth of quarters and a couple good-size tubes of epoxy. Mix. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/8 "2007-04-01T19:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Maybe you should do the honorable thing and accept defeat, and hand him a ten dollar bill that hasn’t been near anyone’s ass. [/QUOTE] Where do you keep your wallet, if not near your ass? ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/9 "2007-04-01T19:12:06Z")
I did some looking and according to [this site](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_a_US_penny_weigh) a penny weighs 2.5 grams. So, 1000 would be 2500 grams which is about 5.5 pounds. Math is my big weakness, so I could be off. But, if I am right, 5.5 pounds is not outrageously heavy and would be a really funny way to pay a bet (as long as you weren’t trying to pay me, that is 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/10 "2007-04-01T19:12:29Z")
In quarters. In Jello. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/11 "2007-04-01T19:13:00Z")
**friendo** has the mature answer. The _fun_ answer is that you should give him one hundred checks, written to computer-generated random amounts between a penny and a quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/12 "2007-04-01T19:13:13Z")
Wait a second. You guys made a bet and he won so you need revenge? I’m missing something here. If he really believes he’s good at gambling, reality will eventually give him a sharp–hopefully not too sharp–lesson that he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/13 "2007-04-01T19:18:46Z")
Ten dollars in pre-1982 pennies have a mass of 3.1 kilograms. Post 1982 pennies? 2.5 kilograms. (About 6.8 and 5.5 pounds respectively). Are stamps legal tender? If so, how about going to your post office to get 1,000 1¢ stamps? How about those coupons you see on jars? Don’t they say cash value 1/20 of a cent or something like that? Now _that_ would be somewhat inconvenient for him. Of course, keep in mind, that you don’t want to pursue an activity that might take several weeks that will only cause your friend just a few moments of inconvenience. (Unless you have a very vengeful mind BWA-HA-HA !!!) Wow - looking at this in preview, a lot of other answers have appeared. And **Shamrock** , that figure is for post-1982 pennies. (see above) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/14 "2007-04-01T19:24:54Z")
If he is supposedly so great at gambling, give him a $10 chip at a casino here in Las Vegas. That way, you have paid the debt, but the only way he can cash it is to actually go to that specific casino in Las Vegas - otherwise the chip is worthless. So, for instance, to get use out of his $10 chip here he would need to buy a round trip air ticket to Las Vegas and at least one night’s stay, plus food and drink - yeah, that sounds like a deal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/15 "2007-04-01T19:31:48Z")
Hide nickels in various places around your city (taped to the underside of a mailbox, suspended from a string inside a sewer, etc.) and give him a treasure map. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/16 "2007-04-01T19:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] If he is supposedly so great at gambling, give him a $10 chip at a casino here in Las Vegas. That way, you have paid the debt, but the only way he can cash it is to actually go to that specific casino in Las Vegas - otherwise the chip is worthless. [/QUOTE] Ooh! Even better. $10-equivalent chip for the Casino at Monte Carlo. It sounds nice until you realize it costs more than $10 just to get in (unless you’re staying at one of the connected hotels). Throw in the $750+ for round-trip tickets (from LAX), and it’s effectively worthless. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/17 "2007-04-01T19:48:32Z")
Imaginative though some of these replies are, you should also consider the time and effort required to implement them. After all, if you spend a hundred bucks’ worth of time and effort to pay back a ten-dollar bet, on whom does the joke end up? The “epoxy” gag is quick and easy, for example, but you’d have to shell out for the materials. OTOH, the “hide nickels” gag is cheap but would take a long time to implement. All told, the best bang for the buck would probably be the “big jar of pennies” gag. Unfortunately, that one is kind of old and stale… ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/18 "2007-04-01T20:21:00Z")
Fold it up and glue it. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/19 "2007-04-01T20:43:25Z")
Shake his hand, congratulate him on his win and give him the ten bucks you owe him. An obnoxious payoff makes you look like an immature, sore loser. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325/20 "2007-04-01T21:15:05Z")
Whatever you do, do not act mature!!! Some these ideas are too funny to let die! Be an asshole, it’s fun! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-way-to-pay-up-on-a-10-bet/398325.md?page=2)