Would you sell out?

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Would you kill somebody?

No. I'd spend the resot of my life in jail, and hot the hell could I spend it there?

Would you fellate a man (if you're a straight man)?

Nobody else has to know, and it probably wouldn't be that bad, so I'd say yes.

Would you give up your left eye?

I'm sure with 100 grand, I could get some sort of surgery, so I'd say yes.

Would you walk into a biker bar and pick a fight with someone?

Although nobody ever said the guy in the biker bar had to be stronger than me, but just to be safe, no.

Would you walk naked around your block?

Why not? Others do it.

[IRG CommandoJoe]

No. I'd spend the resot of my life in jail, and hot the hell could I spend it there?

Hmm...if you're Italian, you could join the mafia. After you're made, you can actually have a decent life in jail. lol

[THEHOOLIGANJEDI]

Here's some scenarios for you, for that 100 G's.

Would you kill somebody?

If I can get away with it. yes of course. Some people deserve it.

Would you fellate a man (if you're a straight man)?

No!! Penises are ugly!! (except my own), and men smell.

Would you give up your left eye?

No, it would deminish my good looks.

Would you walk into a biker bar and pick a fight with someone?

Not all bikers are tough guys and I'm a pretty decent fighter. I would have ro fight hella dirty though.

Would you walk naked around your block?

No prob with that. I may be skinny, but who cares.

[Uraniun235]

Here's some scenarios for you, for that 100 G's.
Would you kill somebody?
Would you fellate a man (if you're a straight man)?
Would you give up your left eye?
Would you walk into a biker bar and pick a fight with someone?
Would you walk naked around your block?

No.
Yes.
No.
No. (If I did that I'd wind up owing a 100 Gs for all the medical costs.)
Yes.

[Lagmonster]

Here's some scenarios for you, for that 100 G's.
Would you kill somebody?
Would you fellate a man (if you're a straight man)?
Would you give up your left eye?
Would you walk into a biker bar and pick a fight with someone?
Would you walk naked around your block?

1) No, but that's on principle. My conscience wouldn't allow it.
2) For 100,000 bucks, I could do head on a guy. It wouldn't be sexual for me. It'd be the same if they asked me to chew on a cow brain. It's just a gross stunt for a lot of cash.
3) No to the eye. I can't re-grow it. My cousin has a donor eye since he lost his in a car accident, and he says it works just fine, but for me, the principle of giving up my organs while I'm still using them is a finite issue.
4) Sure, for 100,000, I could pick a fight. I'm sure that not all bikers are going to be brutal murderers, and if I can pick the fight, I can control it. I'm not martial arts-trained and I'm not military, but I AM a lean, strong man at six and a half feet tall. I am not out of shape and could easily smash a guy over the head with a chair and then outrun a horde of half-drunk bikers.
5) Sure. Again, it's a stunt for cash. I could make it around my block in less than five minutes at a run and would do it in the dead of night.

Many of these 'dares' are what classical con-men like Titanic Thompson and 'The Brain' Rothschild and others called the proposition bet. The key to winning them was to control the loopholes that allowed you to win.

For example, I once bet a professional golfer that I could hit a golf ball with a putter three times as far as he could on his best day, and I never played a game of golf in my life. I won. If you can guess how, you're automatically a really smart son-of-a-bitch.

[Andrew J.]

I would never sell out my principles! I'm a highly principled person. I have one principle, and I always stick to it:

Look out for number one.

Pretty hard to sell out with a principle like that, eh?

[Coaan]

To put it simply...

YES!

I have plans that require cash....or mass genocide...whichever I can do first

[irishmick79]

If the price was right (and right would be much higher than $100,000), then I'd sell out in a New York second.

[InnerBrat]

$100k just isn't enough for me to sell out.
It's have to at least enough to live on, which, at current interest rates, would be £1m (that's about $1.75m, isn't it?)

[Drewcifer]

Selling out? A much deeper question than it seems.

Socially, I'd would have to say no. Last year I walked away from a good corporate job (good salary, benefits, had my own office with windows, etc.) because I couldn't stand the environment. I really started to feel like I was becoming someone I didn't like, all for the sake of 'success'.

Now I'm working as a waiter. A massive pay cut, no benefits, no future, but I'm 1000x happier now. I miss being able to buy 2-4 new CDs a week, and eating out where ever and when ever I please. But at the same time, it's worth eating sausage and grits with a smile on my face, rather than eating filet mignon while laboring over TPS reports at dinner time and figuring out who's ass I have to kiss just to do my job.


Artistically? That's a much harder question. There is a big difference between making art, and making a living making art. I am a musician, and have seen both sides of the coin. I've played coffee shop gigs with friends just for fun, but have also played showcases for major labels in Nashville and NYC. (My last band was "too country", "too rock", "too pop", "not pop enough" so we never inked a deal with anyone before the band bit the dust.)

If Shania Twain wanted to play one of my songs, I would say yes in heart beat to $100,000. (Actually I'd take much much less up front in exchange for points on publishing and royalties, but that's another story) Unless it was a very personal song, or a song that a performer wanted to make considerable changes to, I would most likely sell out. I have bills, and I will always be writing and playing more music. (the creative compulsion is not a choice, it is something you do, part of who you are.)

I'm not a Shania fan (and her lip synching at the Super Bowl was a little too obvious), but I would sell her a song.

OK, I'm rambling. My point is that to make a living making art, there will be a certain amount of selling out (unless you're Hendrix or Van Gogh). It's up to you to find how much you're comfortable with. I wouldn't put a Budweiser logo or have product placements on my next cd, but if they wanted me to write a jingle, or use one of my songs as a jingle, I probably would sell the song. I just wouldn't put it out on an album of my own.

I';m not saying selling out is necessary, I just don't see it as a yes/no option.

Too, you'd be surpised how many musicians secretly write jingles, people you would never think of as having 'sold out'.

At the same time, it did make my stomach churn to see Kurt Vonnegut in a TV commericial. OK, so I really hate selling out, but it can be an acceptable compromise to acheive greater goals.

Blah, disengaging ramble mode.

[Drewcifer]

Here's some scenarios for you, for that 100 G's.

Would you kill somebody?

Would you fellate a man (if you're a straight man)?

Would you give up your left eye?

Would you walk into a biker bar and pick a fight with someone?

Would you walk naked around your block?

Kill? Just for $? Not for any price. Fuck with my family though, and I'll cut you down for free...

Fellatio? Maybe for a figure in the 8 to 9 digit range, but maybe not even then, seems yucky to me. The only thing that makes you gay is being gay, so sucking a dick for $50,000,000 would buy a lot of mouth wash haha probably not though.

Biker fight? No, but that's more a matter of self-preservation than principals.

Naked walk? Sure. I've done similar on just a dare.
(I once spent a day at a nudist colony, after the first 20 minutes everything seemed normal. NUdity is'nt really a big deal, especially when everyone else is too.)

[HemlockGrey]

For example, I once bet a professional golfer that I could hit a golf ball with a putter three times as far as he could on his best day, and I never played a game of golf in my life. I won. If you can guess how, you're automatically a really smart son-of-a-bitch.

You never specified how many times you were allowed to hit it.

[Darth Fanboy]

"Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish

Well, I know you can't work in fast food all your life
But don't sign that paper tonight, she said, but it's too late
I don't remember what I read, I don't remember what they
Said, I guess it doesn't matter, I guess it doesn't matter
Anymore - you're gonna go to the record store
You're gonna give'em all your money
Radio plays what they want you to hear
They tell me it's cool but I just don't believe it...
Sell out, with me oh yea, sell out, with me tonight
Record company's gonna give me lots of money and
Everything's gonna be
No more flippin' burgers puttin' on my silly hat you know
I don't want that no more, I didn't ask when we'd
Get paid, I quit my day job anyway, I guess it
Doesn't matter, I guess it doesn't matter anymore
You're gonna go to the record store, you're gonna
Give'em all your money, radio plays what they want
You to hear, they tell me it's cool, but I just don't
Believe it
Sell out, with me oh yea, sell out
With me tonight, the record company's gonna give me
Lots of money and everything's gonna be
I don't think it'll be so bad
I know it won't be so bad
Cause the man said "that's the way it is" and the
Man said "it don't get better than this" no no no
So i signed on to the record company, they say they're
Gonna give me lot's of money, if I play what they want you to hear
They tell me it's cool, and I sure believe it...


*also remember that money will get you through times of no love better than love will get you through times of no money*