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Re:New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard by dontscale on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:08PM (#11733355)
In that case, you'd really enjoy Charlie Munger's parable about the Shoebutton Prince.

The story goes that one of Charlie's distant relatives had cornered some part of the 1920's shoebutton market. Back then, shoebuttons were smallish ornaments you put on your shoes.

The success entitled the prince to pontificate on any and all things in unlimited fashion--especially those outside the realm of shoebuttons.

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Re:New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard by 6stringmerc on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:37PM (#11733601)
I do believe I would enjoy that parable because I think it happens a lot in the US culture. You know like listening to, ahem, certain anti-vaccine people simply because they were in a nudie magazine and on the TV for a while.
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