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To: oldirtybastard who wrote (89032)	4/3/2001 1:29:44 AM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

ODB, a simple analogy I saw on the Crisco thread about what's happening now.... I watched this unfold the other day. It was a birthday party. Little kids. Picture twenty or so happy tykes running 'round and 'round and 'round. Music playing, cake on faces (and clothes and hands and floor and...), look at the glee in their eyes. One kid barely able to walk but imitating her older brother and having a blast. It is indeed a pleasant sight. Then the music stops. There's a noticeable delay before they even figure it out. Then a scramble. The older ones run right to the chairs. That little one doesn't understand the game at all... she doesn't even get it as she's led away from the game. Gradually, big to little it seems everyone got into a chair and the grins... they were priceless. The music starts again. All of the kids get up and run some more. A chair is taken away. Laughter and giggles and goofing around. And then a scramble as the music stops. One by one kids exit the game. Unhappy in various degrees. One kid in tears. Another with a shrug asks when the next game starts. And a spectrum of ranges in between. But it really started to get serious when there were only 5 kids and 4 chairs. In fact, the kid that just exited the game was knocked to the floor by an older kid, playing for keeps. No joy. Total concentration. The rounds are faster now. The guy running the game is playing with the kids. He knows it doesn't matter how long he keeps the music on. He played with the volume just to spook the kids. Easily spooked. There's almost no delay between when the music stops and kids on chairs either. And on the sidelines the kids were talking about strategy and how to play well next time and why it was the fault of someone else they didn't get a chair. And watching the action. At the end, two kids staring in each others' eyes, both with hands on the one chair circling it like wrestlers. You know the outcome. Every game ends the same. Just the players change. That's the stock market. Only it's cash, not chairs. It's adults, not kids. One rule is different though. In the kid's version, it's cheating to sit on a chair while the music is playing.