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Offline ReardenSteel

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Facebook 1 - street screaming 0
« on: May 19, 2009, 04:44:07 PM »
Whoa dudes! Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a faithfull trip... to the post office.


I had one of those chores today that demanded a trip to the Post Office. I find the nearest one (online) and scurry up MLK to Vine ST which is right off the University of Cincinnati campus. Lotta one way streets, traffic, traffic lights and yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, as I'm navigating my way around that part of town (there's a Bogart's, a few crappy bars and the usual college town stuff) I am accosted by a young Turk with a sign that says $4 and then some small print gibberish I can't read. My innate sense of navigation forces me to do a u-turn and I get around, fight the traffic lights and realize these kids are on every corner of a two square block area. All selling $4 "something". I assume there is an event and it's $4 parking (a bargin) or $4 draft beers or CD's or movies or whatever-who-cares. None of which make this tiny event in my life a worthwhile story to tell. Then I get home and jump on Facebook...

Just to see who's about and what is up and guess what? This little add catches my eye in the sidebar...

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$4 Domino's Pizzas

Today at the 2901 Vine St., Clifton, location, $4, ready to go, large cheese and pepperoni pizzas.

I gotta tell ya folks. It's a wild and wacky world we're living in, believe you me.  :-)
   
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

Offline Lord Undies

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Re: Facebook 1 - street screaming 0
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2009, 04:48:46 PM »
Last Wednesday, Arby's was giving away free roast beef sandwiches for the asking.  I figured out if they were selling a large drink with every other sandwich they were still making 110% profit.  Strange world indeed.

Offline ReardenSteel

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Re: Facebook 1 - street screaming 0
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2009, 05:08:46 PM »
Last Wednesday, Arby's was giving away free roast beef sandwiches for the asking.  I figured out if they were selling a large drink with every other sandwich they were still making 110% profit.  Strange world indeed.

600th H5 :-)

Hooray for Capitalism!
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826