Betting on Certainties
The expression “betting on certainties” should never refer to horses, dogs, racing cars or bikes, and I prefer to interpret that expression to mean betting on the existence of the object of the bet. I don’t gamble but I once had a $100 bet with a mate that my golf partner would be the winner of the nearest the pin shot on two of the holes we had recently finished. One shot left him with a 3 inch putt and the other with a longer 12 inches. I had seen the shots, my mate had not