Obama Inaugural Betting
What are the odds that Obama’s inaugural speech will include the word “banana”? According to the Swedish gambling site Betsson, the answer is 1,000-to-1. You can put down money on that outcome, or on the possibility of Obama accidentally cursing, or mentioning the German chancellor “Angela Merkel” (an event given 1,000-to-1 odds) or using various other terms (”Axis of Evil,” Spanish Prime Minister “José Luis Rodríquez-Zapatero”).
Putting down some cold hard cash would make watching the inauguration ceremony that much more riveting. Oh, but it’s virtually guaranteed that Obama will use the word “change” (1.03-to-1) and “United States” (1.01-to-1). Online bet-placers have also decided that Obama is more likely to say “puppy” than “Martin Luther King.”
