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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: P. T. Barnum
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 10:05:29 EDT
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> In article <372@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) writes:
> >
> >To quote Mr. P. T. Barnum:  "There is a sucker born every minute."
> 
> It's a pity that people don't complete that quote properly; P. T. Barnum
> said,
> 
> 	``There's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.''
> 
> 	waiting for Ponzi to incorporate to sell Newman's machine,
> 
> 	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU

To those of us who remember what happened to the French company (ELF?)
a couple of years ago this is really small potatoes.  Now that was
a scheme to remember, imaginary rays probing the limits of oil fields,
faked computer graphics output, drooling government officials, and
best of all the spectacular disappearance of large amounts of money.
-- 
"Superior firepower is an      Ethan Vishniac
 important asset when          {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
 entering into                 ethan@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
    negotiations"              Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas