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To: Sawtooth who wrote (12116)	7/7/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Tim -- it is time for a joke. A container ship carrying a lot of canned sardines sinks in shallow water just offshore of its destination port. The insurance carrier auctions off the right to salvage the containers with canned sardines (sight (and condition) unseen). Someone buys them at 2 cents a can. It turns out he was right. All that is wrong is that the paper labels were ruined. He has new labels put on the cans, and sells them at a profit to a food broker for 13 cents a can. The food broker eventually sells them to a regional wholesaler for 17 cents a can. The regional wholesaler sells them to a large grocery chain for 21 cents a can. The grocery chain decides (at the last minute) that they are afraid to sell canned sardines that have been re-labeled, so sells them (before they ever got on the shelves) to a more flea-bag grocery store chain for 21 cents. This chain decides to try and just "broker" the sardines, since 21 cents is still way below the normal wholesale price. They eventually do sell them to a small grocery store chain for 28 cents a can. When this chain is about to put the sardines out on their shelves, someone at the company open a can to taste it. The sardines are terrible, and he calls up the last seller of the sardines to complain. He responds : "Those aren't eating sardines; those are trading sardines." Can we get AMZN or YHOO to change their ticker symbol to SRDN? Jon.