On Wed, 15 May 1996, Will Zehring wrote:
> David D. writes:
>
> >Just got off the phone with with a fellow
> >enthusiast who has a friend who spent $35,000 on the restoration of an
> >MGB, no the comma is not in the wrong place and I did not forget the
> >decimal point, Thirty-five thousand dollars.
>
> My second reaction to this (I don't need to tell you my first) is that this
> sort of stunt says nothing about the value of a given car to a given person
> but volumes about the value of a buck to a given person. IMHO, the fellow
> who dropped 35K on a V8 MGB has many more of those dollars than he knows
> what to do with.
I dunno. Spending $35K for an MG is sensible, in comparison with
spending a half million dollars for Pres. Kennedy's old rocking chair,
though both seem to be a case of what happens when you have more dollars
than sense.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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