Hey y’all,

Sorry we haven’t updated in a while, but here are a couple new bets for your enjoyment!!

-Samm

About 2 months ago I went to Minneapolis with a few friends. We went to Boston Market for lunch and we were hungry. My friend told the manager this and he hooked us up with a great recommendation. My friend liked the manager so much that he gave him a nickname, “Clancey”, since we didn’t know his real name. As we ate we would make up stories about Clancey and if he’d be willing to manage a store in Winnipeg if we opened one up. After we finished up we found out his name was Maurice.

This story was the inspiration for this 10DB. I figured since we didn’t actually call Maurice by our nickname, Clancey, that I’d get Samm to cal the waitress “Clancey” while asking her a question.

Also on our trip to Madison we started doing our “2 Cent Commentary” podcasts. I’ll be posting those in the next few days as well as Samm’s bet for me.

-Jay

The first ever Long-D 10DB!!

My inspiration for this 10db came from observing a young child at a restaurant.  At such a young age, kids don’t really understand manners, and the concept of being polite - they just want to get whatever they want as soon as possible.  This particular child had just finished drinking his milk, and apparently wanted some more.  The way in which he requested for more milk was pretty amusing (cuz he’s a little kid), and made me think “I wonder how people would react if an adult did the same thing…”

-Samm

Being a Canadian-born Chinese, I get a kick out of bad Chinese-English translations (see www.engrish.com).

A few months ago, my friend Ken got some face cream as a gag gift.  By reading the label and instructions, one could easily conclude that the lotion was of the “made in China” variety - the perfect kind of prop to be used in a 10DB.

Yes, this bet was easy and lame, but just the thought of what this lotion (of questionable origin) may or may not do to Jay’s face added to the thrill (I was secretly hoping it would turn his skin blue).

Stay tuned for the first long-d-10DB…

-S

As I mentioned in the Lotion Bet, us boys invent some pretty stupid games to amuse ourselves.

While we were in Florida the weather was pretty hot, and to keep cool, we kept some ice in our hotel room to chill some drinks.  Well, being the boys that we are, we came up with “the ice game”.  The goal of “the ice game” was to sneak up on one of the other guys, and slip an ice cube into their shorts.  As stupid as the game may sound, it requires great finesse and agility to be successful at “the ice game” and not a victim.  Being the youngest one in the group, I often get teamed up on when it comes to games such as this, so I had to take matters into my own hands…

While we were at Disney, we found that the customer service was AWESOME, and all the Disney employees were all very helpful (oh, Svetlana).  During our first full day in Florida, I wanted to test just how professional the Disney staff was.

While we were walking around Magic Kingdom, every once in a while, we would see some little girl running around wearing a little princess dress.  The four of us thought it was kind of ridiculous, cuz there’s pretty much no other appropriate time when a kid could wear that dress (Halloween…The Prom…?) outside of Disney World.  We ended up finding the store in Disney where they sell the dresses, and that’s where I came up with this bet.  It can only be described as being absolutely MAGICAL.

PS Check out Jay’s site if you want to see more pictures from the Floridays

After the weak bets from both of us, I wanted to think of something original for the next bet. A couple days after the cake bet, Samm, myself, and a couple of our friends, Joe and Joe, booked a trip to Disney World in sunny Orlando, Florida. We dubbed the name of the trip as “The Floridays” and over the next few weeks you’ll be seeing bets from the trip as we tried to do one each day.

Anyway, back to this bet. There wasn’t really a time and place over the next couple months where I felt a 10DB would be appropriate until the day we left for Florida. As we waited in the Winnipeg Airport to board our plane, a song popped into my head. “I’m leaving on a jet plane, I don’t know when I’ll be back again”. I told Samm that I’m going to bet him to sing the verse and chorus of that song in the middle of the hall filled with vacationers, business people, and probably International Businessmen! HOWEVER, he made a LAME excuse about not knowing the words to the song… c’mon… I think he was just a bit stage-fright. So whatever, I told him that I would get him back later. As we arrived in Florida, we settled into our hotel and decided to go get some food. We passed a TGIFriday’s on the way to the resort and decided that it would be a good place to eat. After giving the waitress our orders, we were just chatting then out of nowhere another song popped into my head and then the idea of the next bet was born!

Sorry for being tardy on the bet this week.  I was actually going to post these bets last week but I had to re-think it a bit.  Samm and I weren’t sure if we wanted to post these weak-sauce bets.  I’ll explain the reasoning behind it.  One of our 10DB rules states that we can’t make bets that may cause or potentally cause the betee to get arrested.  Now this may seem pretty extreme but you never know how people are going to react nowadays.  So after a couple of these types of bets we figured that it’s probably a good idea to not make bets involving touching people, especially strangers.  Besides, the bets usually don’t end up how we envision it anyway, just like these ones…

j

Samm and I have talked about dressing up as Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, the hosts of the podcast diggnation, for about a week now. We wanted to do something that would catch the attention of the people that scan through the hundreds and maybe thousands of emails they get weekly. It had to be unique. I’m not sure if it’s a requirement but they seem to show pictures of fans wearing a Diggnation shirt. Since we didn’t have access to fighter jets or anything with a wow factor to take a picture with, we thought being them with an added Canadian twist (note the Cdn coloured shirts and Cdn beer, eh?) might do the trick. As we were coming up with ideas I kept one to myself… well not really… but he thought I was only kidding… hahah…..

Boys get bored easily.  When boys get bored, they like to invent games for themselves.  I’m not sure how or when it happened, but a few of us started a game called “Lotion Wars” or “Lotion Fights”.  It’s simple - smear lotion on each other when they least expect it (preferably on the face or head area).  This 10db was a spin off that game.

It was a clear May afternoon.  We were about to run the LCC (an annual 10 km race that a bunch of friends put together) when I thought, “Man…we haven’t played Lotion Wars in a while”.   And I recalled the fond memories of trying to lotion Jay’s face while he was sleeping when we were in Calgary…or the time I snuck some lotion into my cousin’s potato salad, which resulted in the story referred to as “the time Ding ate lotion”.  That’s when I decided that it was time for Pastor Steve to join Lotion Wars.