Social Security will get me through!
You and TWENTY MILLION illegals that never paid in???
I remember the Wild Wild West episode, the Night of the Tottering Tontine. The last person alive gets all the money in a tontine investment.
Social Security is the ultimate Ponzi scheme.
I always thought a tontine was group of friends bought a bottle of fine wine or scotch, with the agreement that the last of the group will drink a toast to the friends of his/her youth.
One of the most memorable episodes of MASH was an episode when Colonel Potter receives and mysterious notice from a lawyer and anxiously awaits the arrival of a package. The group is concerned about him but when the package arrives, he invites the all to share in his toast.
“The Wrong Box”, starring a young Michael Caine in a comedic role was about two old brothers in Victorian London who hated each other, the last survivors of the Tontine, one of whom had a good-hearted son (Michael Caine) the other of which had two no-goodnick sons and a beautiful daughter who become Michael Caine’s love interest, because either or both were adopted.
The no-goodnick sons come to believe that their father was killed in a train crash when he was not, and try to kill the other surviving brother while hiding what they believe to be their father’s body.
There is a hilarious cameo appearance by Peter Sellers, a drug-addicted doctor who the no-goodnick sons ask to produce a death certificate dated ahead and winds up blotting his signature with a cat.
I had never heard the word before and don’t give a rat’s behind.
Obamatines?
I like to crumble up to tontines in soup. No, wait a minute, that’s Saltines.
These arrangements were so widespread in the 18th century that the young United States almost ran a tontine itself: Alexander Hamilton proposed a tontine to pay down national debt after the Revolutionary War.
That links to an article written by my father!
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1922216?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents