Term for getting the bottle... last one to survive?

Factual Questions
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Okay.

My co-worker is trying to think of a term that defines this situation.

A group of people go through something together… say a war. They make a pact that the last person to survive gets something, a bottle of wine or a medal or something.

This was done on the Simpsons with Monty and Abe. This was, according to my co-worker, done on MASH, when Potter gets the wine and is sad because he knows he’s the last one left.

Come on SDMB! I know you can do it!

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A tontine.

3

Dear God.

Thank you.

I bet her I could get an answer before we had to go home. We just shut the door.

MWAH!!

4

Obligatory movie cite: The Wrong Box (1966), with Peter Sellers.

:slight_smile:

5

Nitpick - It was a bottle of fine brandy, not wine.

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Likewise, there was a MAS*H episode where Col. Potter is the last survivor of a group of WWI buddies and gets the tontine (also a bottle [or bottles] of alcohol).

Zev Steinhardt