American Boxing Day Tradition

[Monkey@Arms]

We also have a bottle of very good scotch in a tontine, that I hope not to taste.

A tontine, there's a word you don't hear everyday. I've only come across the concept on a The Simpsons episode about a tontine entered into during WWII involving Grampa Abe and Montgomery Burns.

Best regards,

Jake

[James MacMillan]

This is the third tontine (not money) that I have been involved in. One was with 5 cubans (2 Cohiba, 3 Montecristo) that we did among an original 55 guys in the early sixties. This tontine was broken when it got down to 5. I am also in another that has a bottle of Dom Pérignon.

It's funny, most would want to be the last person, but in most of us, we don't....

[macwilkin]

A tontine, there's a word you don't hear everyday. I've only come across the concept on a The Simpsons episode about a tontine entered into during WWII involving Grampa Abe and Montgomery Burns.

Best regards,

Jake

I always think of the episode of MASH where Col. Potter is the last survivor of a tontine by some of his buddies from WWI.

T.