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Re: The final accessory

To: Tombread@aol.com
Subject: Re: The final accessory
From: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:33:35 -0800
The exact quote is:

"No one in this world, so far as I know...has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain
people." -- H. L. Mencken

In Australia, they sell a souvenir "lucky pouch" supposedly made from
kangaroo testicles. Who do you think they sell them to? American
tourists.

Tombread@aol.com wrote:
> 
> As HL Mencken said, nobody ever went broke overestimating Americans' lack of
> taste.  This is in the category of "S**t Happens" t-shirts.

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