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4 hours ago, Special K said:
You are getting hung up on the fact that its the same cow being purchased......
If you bought a cow for 60 and sold it for 70, then bought a different cow for 80 and sold it for 90, the profit would be 20 bucks....therefore why would it be different if it was the same cow?? You are getting the full purchase price plus an additional ten dollars back on the second sale....10+10=20.
Yeah....BUT it's one business entity, right?
Where's the extra $10 coming from, the same company books I assume?
$60 made $10, re-bought for $80... What coffers is that extra $10 coming from?
6 hours ago, 4merper4mer said:Not enough information. He spent a total of $140 on purchasing the cow and collected a total of $160 so they are trying to trick you into saying $20 but how long did he own the cow? It doesn’t say. He had to feed it, take it to the vet, buy a shovel to clean the poop, etc. He also may have sold a bunch of milk or maybe people paid him to take pictures with the cow. That’s before we get into permits, fees, taxes, pro-rated barn space, and opportunity cost because the same money could have been used to by chickens. Also he may have had to buy insurance on the cow in case someone mutilated it in an effort to convince morons that aliens actually exist. This whole thing is a big trick. Don’t fall for it.
He actually spent $150 of his own money.
See above.
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50 minutes ago, muppy said:
Abbey Road
The White Album
2 of my fav's and arguably best records they did. But how do you really judge greatness. It's ALL Genius. It boils down to what flavor you liked best.
Fav Beatles song is a really hard choice. I Love Paperback Writer. one of their more light hearted songs but I just have always liked it.
It was a #1 too... Single though... Always had a soft spot for:
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1 minute ago, BringBackFergy said:
Do is it $10 or $20?
Not sure. They say it's $20... He kicks in $140 on $160 sales... BUT the dude has to kick in $10 more of his own to make $80 sale... He really spent $150 & made $160.
Damn it Jim! I am just lock & dam operator... Mike's the damn accountant & he says $10 too! 😉
Next thing you'll want me to do is watch river gauges for campers in TexASS.😜
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1 hour ago, Special K said:
Twenty bucks.
Yeah, as 2 separate sales.
BUT I can see how he made only $10. He had to throw in $10 more of his own money to make meet the $80 sale... Wiping out his $10 profit previously. In the end he's really only $10 richer....
No??
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4 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
$10
Made $10 on $70 sale, broke even @ $80 buy back, made $10 on $90 sale.
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6 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:
Beatles fans are mostly drinking their dinners through a straw and watching re-runs of “Dallas” after craft time, correct?
AND watching the 1986 World Series on BetaMax.
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Marrying for love is relatively a new concept... Like in the last 100 years...
Just saying? NOT that there is anything wrong with marrying for love.
Just throwing it out there... 🤪
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45 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:
It kind of depends on where my kids end up living, tbh. I’d like to be within striking range of both of them if possible. My wife and I have talked about selling our home and buying a lake house somewhere in the northeast. Perhaps a return to the finger lakes region. I like the idea of moving south to get away from the cold and snow. We’ll see. I still have have ~20 years to work before I can retire with a full state pension/benefits. 😂
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My son might be moving to Bethel (Sunday River), Maine from Valparaiso, Indiana... This might be a game changer for us, especially with daughter in NE/Mid-Atlantic...
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On 7/9/2025 at 7:10 AM, Fleezoid said:
Anyone wearing Golashes going through the airport should be arrested immediately. Especially if they're also wearing the yellow, Gorton fisherman raincoat.
And while I'm at it.....anyone wearing a Sabres jersey in the airport claiming they're traveling to a game, is lying, and should be arrested immediately.
You forgot the cavity check.
Arrested immediately & given a full cavity check. That'll teach 'em to be Sabres fans in public!
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57 minutes ago, Another Fan said:
Funny you ask/mention this. A former boss and friend bought some property down in very South Jersey by the shore. I think he’s transitioning toward retiring/living down there,
But then he asked me to down there as well. Which I’m just like retired life must be nice. Lol. It’s like over 2 hours from where I live.
Cape May is very nice...
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2 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
PITTSBURGH -- Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced Saturday. He was 74.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45604595/dave-parker-pirates-hall-famer-7-all-star-dies
WOW!
He just got inducted to HoF & was incoming!😔😟🙁😥
Sheesh...
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George Jakowenko. Place kicker... Born in Belgium🇧🇪 went to Syracuse...
O.J. Simpson.
My MiL was a nurse at Mercy Hospital. O.J. check himself in under the name: "Mr.Treesweet." ...That's what she claims...😏
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Studio version w/19th Century photos... Rarely seen... Without the revisionist history:
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Too many down this road...
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8 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
I will see you and raise you also from 'The River' a 'Point Blank'...
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36 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:
You are NOT!!!
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Too bad the money I am paying for Mike is coming from you... AND me of course subsidizing my own wage... I pay Fed Tax too. 😆😔
What a vicious circle!😉
Which rightly so, gives me a bigger say in the matter...
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2 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
A white panel van from NJ ?
Actually... Mister Softee global HQ is out of Runnemede, New Jersey. We go by it all the time.
Should I drop the bomb 💣 on @BringBackFergy? This will ruin his day...
...Here goes, I am working for you too Mike!😆🤣
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This is a no judgement zone, right?
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He retired a little before Pominville... But if he played a few years earlier... I can just imagine:
"Puck-pushing punks push Pominville, Pominville pushes back, story @ 11!"
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Red pistachios:
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/red-pistachios.htm
Seeing how Josh is a pistachio farmer...
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11 minutes ago, Augie said:
There is a limit to how much time most people want to pass. It’s slow by nature, don’t let them drag it out.
Quick compared to cricket 🏏... By nature it's lightning quick, and was billed as such.
It's Americans who have an even shorter attention span now.
41 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:Simple cure for most that ills baseball:
Make the strike zone a circle that fits INSIDE the current box.
It's called a strike zone because that's the zone where the ball is supposed to be easy to strike with the bat.
That's not the case with those corners and to add insult to injury all these "pitchers" gotta' do is hit the tiniest edge of the box for it to be considered "IN" the strike zone.
If you think the hitting sucks now wait until they automate the zone next season and pitchers are allowed to just nail that up and inside pitch that is 99% unhittable but still considered a strike.
And that's inside the box. The reality is that zone is WAY bigger than the box........it's the box plus a line of baseballs all around it. A good pitcher really never has to throw a hittable pitch.
And if you can run 5 relievers out there every game they never get fatigued regardless of how hard they throw.
The ball is round, the bat is a cylindrical........make the zone a circle.
Watch the mph of pitches drop and the number of ridiculous breaking balls decline and watch batting averages return to where they were and A LOT more action.
And I will say "most" that ills baseball and not "all" because one problem baseball will always have is that you can't score on defense. It's the only one of the 4 major sports where you know for a fact you can tune out for 10 minute intervals and not miss your team scoring. I can usually watch a movie during a baseball game by just not watching my team pitch.
But you can't tune out forever, especially extra innings.
One game without a clock, and they go ahead and put one in.
Brain Teasers
in Off the Wall
Posted · Edited by ExiledInIllinois
Don't know the official reason... But it's a one-way mathematical equation. 33.33 gets buried... Kinda like the extra $10 above.
33.33 is split between them.