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To: Berk who wrote (25316)10/17/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: 16yearcycle  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
From Barrons, with regard to our friends, the Nobel Prize winners who spawned Wrong Term Capital Mismanagement:

So these three professionals are marooned on the island, and they find a can of tuna, but have no way to open it.

Says the engineer: "Let's find a rock and crush the can open."

Suggests the chemist: "That's impractical. A better idea is to find some chemicals and blast it open."

Quoth the economist: "You people are truly misguided. There's only one way: Let's assume we have a can-opener ... ."