Sucker Bet
Mistress Jane Henderson learns the hard way not to bet on a sure thing.
"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come to you and show you
a nice, brand new deck of cards on which the seal has not yet been broken. This
man is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out
of that deck and piss in your ear. Now son, you do not take this bet, for as
sure as you stand there, you are going to wind up with an earful of piss."
From Sky Masterson's speech about his father's advice - from "Guys and Dolls."
[The wording is as originally written by Damon Runyon in his short story on
which the play was based. For the play, "piss" was changed to "squirt cider."
and the speech became known as "the earful of cider speech."]
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