See what a weasel Max is? The bet was made when Nancy insisted that there would be no denying the passage of Planet X and the pole shift before 2012. That's when the bet was made. Max even said that he was sure we would all be toast by then. That's what the bet was about. It was much later that Nancy decided to widen the window and diminish the doom to the extent that we might not even notice. That's not part of the bet. The bet was that if doom wasn't all around us by 2012, Max would buy Hap a steak.