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£10 Monkeys

A British FOLK TALE !

£10.00 Monkeys

Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced
to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for £10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around,
went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at £10 and, as supply started to
diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced
that he would now buy monkeys at £20 each. This renewed the
efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started
going back to their farms. The offer increased to £25 each and
the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to
even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at £50
each! However, since he had to go to the city on some
business, his assistant would buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers:
"Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man
has already collected. I will sell them to you at £35 and
when the man returns from the city, you can sell them
to him for £50 each."
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all
the monkeys for £700 billion.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots
and lots of monkeys!



Now you have a better understanding of how
Gordon Brown's BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!

It doesn't get much clearer than this................
  • Posted 27 Feb 2009 03:56
  • By dave_p
  • joined 11 Jun'04 - 14 messages
  • United Kingdom
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SOUNDS MORE LIKE THE IRISH GOVERMENT......
  • Posted 27 Feb 2009 07:23
  • By DAMO
  • joined 9 Jan'07 - 196 messages
  • DUBLIN, Ireland

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