I just learnt what a tontine is.
Unsurprisingly,
The Tontine
by Thomas Costain is about a tontine. It was one of the books that everyone in the had in the '50s, along with
The Keys of the Kingdom
by A. J. Cronin,
The Robe by Lloyd Douglas
Forever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor and
The Foxes of Harrow
by Frank Yerby. I eventually read all of my parents' books during periods of desperation when I ran out of something to read.
I just put some pumpkin bread in the oven. I then noticed that the addition of 1 1/2 cups of water was in the directions but not the list of ingredients. This should be interesting.
I'm kind of psyched for Alcatraz. I hope it doesn't suck.
Did you not add the water, Ginger?
goodwill stores and estate sales are good places to find crock pots.
Brees isn't getting away with some of the stuff he's been able to get away with so far.
I am kind of pretending not to watch. At least, not staring at the screen directly.
I did not add the water. Trying to dump the batter back in the bowl and add water after it had been cooking for about 10 minutes seemed like it might also lead to failure. It was a fairly wet batter anyway.
Mystery writers used to love Tontines - because not only a great setup for murder, but if the murders was clever, it took a lot of deaths before you could narrow down your suspect list.
Not really good for itas idea but: I heard about (but am not sure) some modern life insurance pools are a sort of backdoor reverse tontine. Most people with life insurance cash them in before death, often at a hefty penalty. Well in some pools (and BillyTea I hope will correct me if I got this wrong) not all of that penalty is profit for the insurer. Some of it goes back into the fund and adds to the return for those who stay in.
So you "win" by not cashing out while alive, but staying in until you die. Or at least the person collecting wins that way. I always wondered when hearing this, "are there really life policies with variable payouts like that?". Again BillyTea probably knows whether I misunderstood something or whether there are actual policies like this.
If it seemed wet maybe it will be okay.
Okay, this game is a little crazy.
Yeah it is. I might need a beer if we ever actually get to halftime.
