I’m as susceptible to cheap puns as the next guy, perhaps more so, but even I wouldn’t have written a line like this. (At least I’d like to think I wouldn’t have.)

From Christopher Hitchcock’s Beauty and the Bets

There is one way in which the bookie can ensure that he has no information that is unavailable to Beauty: he can sleep with her. That is, he can place his first bet, go into a deep sleep when Beauty does, arrange to have himself awakened under the same protocol as Beauty, and sell a follow-up bet to Beauty whenever they wake up together. (My emphasis)

It’s a good paper, and to be honest I might have made the same ‘joke’ given a quarter-chance, but really…