Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
by tristor on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:34AM
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Your made up horse name made me just think of (which may already exist outside my awareness) a corollary to Poe's Law.
"That without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of race horse names so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere and accurate name of a horse."
We could call it the "Derby Law".
I actually searched for "Fancy Dancy Magic Prancy" because I thought that might be an actual horse. I found out it's a reference to PBF, but nonetheless it /could/ have been a real horse.
Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
by marcosdumay on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:27AM
(#19581816)
It's not the investor that decides to give money to the $10 bills seller. It's a third party.
Now, I don't know what kind of punishment the GP wanted to see. If the question is why doesn't all the money run away from the VP's fund, I wonder about that too.
If I go to the Kentucky Derby put $1000 on Fancy Dancy Magic Prancy, it's hardly the horse's fault if my gamble doesn't pay off.