At 4:56 pm -0500 on 2/4/98, Attila T. Hun wrote:
"Americans do not buy for quality, they buy for price"
Which must explain our gross national product, then. Cheaper, as always, *is* better.
as John Ruskin said:
1. those who buy for price alone are this man's lawful prey.
Those who *don't* buy for price alone are usually somebody's lunch sooner or later.
2. the price of oats is significantly cheaper when it has been processed by the horse.
It ain't oats, then. It's horseshit. Aparently aristocratic horseshit, if I remember Mr. Ruskin's bio right... ;-). Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>