>>>"Yes, 2%", Pete said. "After I dropped out of school I bought some property for $10,000 and sold it for $20,000 - a 2% profit. After that I said 'As long as I make 2% I'll be OK'."
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>O - K. So I suppose you must be a fan of Mark Twain's Old Ram story?
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>;-)

Yes, indeed, although Huckelberry Finn, Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog and The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper are my favorites.

I have one of the few extant copies of "1601", which, in those days, passed as porn.