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Paul Watson — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:37:53 -0000

Dude, what *are* you smoking? :-D

Proteas are lovely flowers, unique to South Africa. Pretty expensive normally and R150 (US$20) is a decent price.

I'll tell them to put in that Buy Now link ;)

Re: Funny florists

Shog9 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:29:38 -0000

What caught my eye was this: "they are fantastic value at R150 and R160 respectively"
I read that, and i thought, "a *fantastic* price, eh? I wanna get me some of them pro-teas..."

Then i stopped, and thought, "wait - how much is R150? And what would a not-so-fantastic price for pro-teas be? How 'bout an average-run-of-the-mill price? What about a not-good-at-all price? And what would the delta be between that fantastic price of R150 and a terrible, horrible, no-good price? Ten R? Ten *thousand* R? And if i'd thought "ten R" as "ten Rs", how much would i be off once both were converted to dollars?!"

Finally, i thought, "i don't even know this company - why am i spending so much time estimating currency conversions when for all i know they're practically *famous* for using the word "fantastic" to describe things that aren't..."

Then i decided to reply, because frankly, all of this was more interesting to me than the joke that followed. Especially the realization that, if you'd thought to put a "Buy Now!" link in your post, i'd have an express shipment of pro-tea on its way to me right now, based only on the "fantastic" rating it received from a company that may well know nothing at all about tea. It's just scary how gullible i am, really...

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