There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

The big homecoming game, however, was canceled when the, uh, president got shot, as was the date itself when I didn't behave aggrievedly enough.

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Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.