Last week my co-worker Jake and I made a bet. If this stupid video of Hugh Jackman on an insane Japanese game show got 50 likes within 24 hours, I’d have to spend this week wearing a superhero costume at work. It didn’t. Now Jake will be spending the week dressed as The Flash. I’m documenting it on Flickr. Be sure to check out Jake Hurwitz: the Fastest Man Alive.
It took us a while to agree on the stakes. Most of that time was spent arguing over what “shave your head” meant, specifically. I’m happy with the outcome. He also bet me the Hugh Jackman video would do better than Manatee Face Smoosh. He owes me a steak for that poor decision.
My one regret about this whole thing is that I allowed Pat (who we asked to title and caption the video given me and Kevin’s obvious bias) to call the video “Hugh Jackman on Insane Japanese Game Show.” I didn’t think about it enough. If I had, I would have remembered that Japanese Game Show videos haven’t done as well lately. And less clicks means less “likes”.
If I could do it all over I’d have tried to get him to title it more along the lines of “Hugh Jackman Has Seizure.”
And I wouldn’t have bet anything against that adorable manatee.
