The question isn't "why do they have a betting pool on me and Picard engaging in sordid, yet entertaining, non-reproductive but damn similar to reproductive activities." The question is "how the hell do they think they're going to *know* if and when we have, so that someone can collect?"
I mean, you can't have a bet going on the outcome of an event when you can't know the outcome. Or I don't know, maybe you can when you're a non-omniscient mortal. There are so *many* things you people don't know, perhaps you've developed a strategy for it. But I'm quite puzzled as to how you can bet on an outcome (or even worse, the amount of time it will take for an outcome to occur) when you can't actually know if or when it has happened.
Just so you know? Private lives stay private. A Q does not kiss and tell. If such an event were to occur, there would be no cosmic godly fireworks, no parades, no mariachi bands, and I would still annoy Riker and Crusher when I show up in public.
In other words, there's nothing to bet on. If and when such an event occurred, no one on the Enterprise would know unless *Picard* told them, and he's always been *sooo* forthcoming about his love life. So nobody's gonna collect.
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I *know* that.
Date: 2003-07-24 10:42 pm (UTC)I mean, you can't have a bet going on the outcome of an event when you can't know the outcome. Or I don't know, maybe you can when you're a non-omniscient mortal. There are so *many* things you people don't know, perhaps you've developed a strategy for it. But I'm quite puzzled as to how you can bet on an outcome (or even worse, the amount of time it will take for an outcome to occur) when you can't actually know if or when it has happened.
Just so you know? Private lives stay private. A Q does not kiss and tell. If such an event were to occur, there would be no cosmic godly fireworks, no parades, no mariachi bands, and I would still annoy Riker and Crusher when I show up in public.
In other words, there's nothing to bet on. If and when such an event occurred, no one on the Enterprise would know unless *Picard* told them, and he's always been *sooo* forthcoming about his love life. So nobody's gonna collect.