Who says Rudy can't fail?

originally posted by SFJoe:
I never realized how important the willing suspension of disbelief is to wine appreciation.
It is, in most parts of life (even though I realize you may have been only mock serious here).

Kahnemann's book "Fast thinking, slow thinking" is a wonderful read about various aspects of this.
 
Wow:

"Does he worry about buying fakes? “I think you would be imprudent if you weren’t diligent about it. In everything there’s real and there’s imposters. Even Colgate toothpaste has impostors and that’s an extremely inexpensive commodity. I think you have to be diligent about what you’re buying and from whom you are buying.”
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originally posted by Jay Miller:
Wow:

"Does he worry about buying fakes? “I think you would be imprudent if you weren’t diligent about it. In everything there’s real and there’s imposters. Even Colgate toothpaste has impostors and that’s an extremely inexpensive commodity. I think you have to be diligent about what you’re buying and from whom you are buying.”
"

Yes.

There were too many hilarious sentences to pull out one example, but those will do.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
the contents of 16,000 barrels stolen... and later foundMaple syrup: click

Fraud without spoof.

There's fraud involved??? Sounds like plain ol' theft to me, but WTF do I know? My education in the finer points of Canadian criminal code was sorely deficient.

Mark Lipton
 
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