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Subject: Re: Pie Question
From: "Jacob W. Haller" <yoof at jwgh.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:29:24 -0400

Paula <mmmtoblerone at earthlink.net> wrote:

I really really really want some pie. But I have a problem, beyond the initial problem of not having any pie in the house at the moment. If I buy a whole pie, it will be too much pie as I will be tempted to eat it all myself. I could buy a slice of pie, but that may not be enough pie, when all is said and done. I don't want to be in this exact same predicament tomorrow, after all. If I buy two slices of pie, it costs about as much as buying a whole pie, but of course isn't nearly as much pie. This waste would, of course, be very bad. There are starving kids in India, after all.

So what do I do?

And, assuming I can get this all worked out, what kind of pie do I buy?

Aha! The solution is clear: you must buy two slices of pie.

But, jwgh, you say, almost asphyxiating yourself in the attempt to pronounce my 'handle', as the hepcats on UNSENET refer to such things, as I have already stated, two slices of pie cost about the same as an entire pie! How can I justify such profligacy?

Ah, I respond, pausing to inhale through my nostrils in a particularly annoying way, but the key is that each slice must be from a different KIND of pie! That way, you have a nice variety which you would not have if you bought an entire pie of one kind. Sensing your doubt, I hasten to add, And who can put a price on variety, which is, as the ancients said, 'the spice of life'?

At this point, you purchase an entire cream pie and hit me in the face with it, silencing me (apart from the odd sputtering sound). Problem solved!

-jwgh

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