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We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats Each cat will have twelve kittens a year The catskins will sell for thirty cents each One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars But what should we feed the cats? We will start a rat ranch next door with a million rats The rats will be twelve times faster than the cats So we can have more rats to feed each day for each cat But what should we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcases of the cats After they have been skinned Now get this! We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats And get the catskins for nothing We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats And get the catskins for nothing We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats And get the catskins for nothing We feed the rats the carcases of the cats After they have been skinned We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats And get the catskins for nothing Rats to the cats and the cats to the rats And get the catskins for nothing
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I thought you were going to be talking about that book by Richard Paul Evans (of The Christmas Box fame) called "The Five Lessons A Millionaire Taught Me about Life and Wealth".
Advertisements have been all over the radio stations, and we were gifted with TV ads between General Conferance (big meeting for every member of the LDS church where the Prophet and leaders speak) sessions.
An excerpt from the blurb about the book:
quote:A kindly multi-millionaire invited all the youth in the area to the local church. He wanted to teach us the 5 lessons of wealth...
...By the age of sixteen I bought my own car and paid most of my own expenses. By nineteen I paid for my own church mission and college. By the age of thirty-one I paid off my home.
One of the things that bothers me most about the area I live is the emphasis on worldly and churchly success. If you can't have that, at least keep up the appearance.
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Since wealthiness is a sign of righteousness, Storm, then you better appear at least to be upper middle class.
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While I think modesty is a good thing, I also think it's o.k. to brag about doing stuff which really is a plus for the world.
Of course, after the 3,445,554 time of hearing about what a good job that person is doing, I can see how you might want to tell them to keep it to themselves.
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quote:He leaves eggs for all the good little boys and girls. What else is there to know?
<Groan> OK, Storm, here it is. See, there was this guy who had a scheme for getting free rabbit skins...
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I'm just confused as to why the (now with Mormons) was on this thread before we started talking about the Mormons.
Anyway, I'm sure the 5 ideas were really non-sexy. Unlike the cats that defy the laws of Thermodynamics in various ways.
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