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I had a 5$ bet with my wife on the election. I lost. While we were out shopping today she hit me up for the money in the check out line. I gave her 3$, and then gave 2$ to the lady standing behind us. I said “I’m only looking out for the people coming up behind us, It’s not fair that you won and she didn’t, so I’m just you know, spreading the wealth around.” The lady looked at me like I was insane and gave me the 2$ back...I kept it. Of course then I had to use it toward the money for the groceries...but it was the principle of the matter.

That's pretty funny. I run a football pool for some friends and decided to post a few rule changes as a result of yesterday's election:

Because of the transformational nature of our new government - we will have to change the pool rules in order to reflect a more inclusive nature for everyone:

1) Points Awarded: From now on, those players who's score is in the top 20% of the total points earned for the weekend will have their points evenly distributed to those who are in the bottom 80 percent of the pool. Those 20% will, of course, be able to keep their fair share of the points they earned but, their fair share will be defined as being within a portion of the 80% who did nothing to garner any of those points. This policy is effective immediately in order to foster a "bottom up approach" in determining a fair outcome at the end of the season.

2) Pool Winnings: Today's rule states that the pool monies will be distributed as follows: 60% for first place, 25% for second place and 15% for third place. The new rule will allocate the pool monies in the following manner: 10% for first place, 5% for second place and 2.5% for third place. The remaining 82.5% of the monies will be distributed to the bottom 40% of those in the pool with less points. These people also include (name) and (name), people who have already quit making picks but yet remain in the standings.

For those of you who do not come in 1st, 2nd or 3rd place and fall above the bottom 40% - you will get nothing as your hard work is noted but, you should feel better knowing that the monies you contributed to the pool are being redistributed to those not as fortunate as yourself.

Dont ya just love this new policy? Get used to it!

The Commish