Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!CC!VSN From: vsn@CC.IMPERIAL.AC.UK (V S Narinian) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas Subject: JOTD Message-ID: <474.9002271302@sund.cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 27 Feb 90 13:02:14 GMT Sender: The Hellenic Discussion List Reply-To: The Hellenic Discussion List Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway Via: UK.AC.EAN; 27 FEB 90 14:00:13 GMT X-Received: from cc.ic.ac.uk by mvax.cc.ic.ac.uk with SMTP id aa16464; 27 Feb 90 12:58 WE ----- A distinguished-looking man entered a Geneva bank and inquired about taking out a loan for 1000 Swiss francs. "What security can you offer?" the banker asked. "My Rolls-Royce is parked out front," he said. "I will be away for a few weeks. Here are the keys." A month later, the man returned to the bank and paid off the loan, 1017 francs with interest. "Pardon me for asking," the banker said, "but why a one-thousand franc loan for a man of your obvious means?" "Very simple," he replied. "Where else can you store a Rolls for a month for seventeen francs?" ----- Vartan