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They got the prize backwards: SPOILER ALERT!!!

posted 11 years ago by Joyylin
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Eating dog meat competition should have been $15K and chopping off pinky should have been $50K. Don't you agree? As awful as eating a puppy is, in a game of would you rather, I'd rather not lose my pinky.

I've actually thought about what finger I would choose to lose if a situation came up...just because finger-chopping is so common in movies and TV-shows. As a pianist, I might have an unique answer. The finger I use the least when I play the piano is my left ring finger. Maybe the inventor of the wedding ring custom was a pianist, too? ;)

[–] billnadsley 11 years ago

I did think the same thing. Even though eating a dog is terrible in my book, I know that I'd have a much easier time doing that than the pinky as well. Even Koechner's character makes a good point about how the guys just said how good the dog smelled before they knew what it was, so there's even a part of me that feels like it may not have tasted all that terrible (though I suppose that it's the psychology of what you're doing, so there's that). Though when it hit the tiebreaker for that one, I did realize I may have a very hard time with that part of it.

I feel like at some point, during the haggling over how much I'd do the pinky thing for, I'd probably have stopped anyway - on that bet, at least. I feel like my brain would have to click into the "What am I doing - volunteering to chop off my finger for less and less money... I think I may have gone crazy" phase.

[–] filterdecay 11 years ago

I think the pinky thing ended up so cheap because it began to show them pulling apart in ernest.

[–] Cobra_1985 11 years ago

Exactly. That scene showed that the money wasn't the only prize in the game for these two desperate men. Simply being "the winner" at something was a prize, in and of itself. As if it would make up for all of their past shortcomings and give them self-worth. The price just went down and down and down.

That was a great scene.

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[–] RoadSideAssistance 9 years ago

Yah agreed. I'd eat pretty much ANYTHING (that wont hurt me) for $1,000. The guy guaranteed the dog was cooked to safe temperature (which of course was BS for the time he was away, but let's just assume it was legit, because the one guy said it smelled good and in the 2 min. he was away it'd easily still be raw and not smell good).

Anyway, I would've wagered down that SIGNIFICANTLY again like as far as $1,000. It's not really that gross. I wouldn't eat dog, but it's really no different than a cow, etc. Some of the stuff they have in foreign countries is FAR worse (like balut or what not).