Wodehouse characters in real life.
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indeedsir_backupI thought the comm might get a bit of a laugh out of this:
I'm watching one of those "Judge So-and-so" shows with my grandmother. Someone is suing his friend for money lost in the friend's free-range chicken business idea.
The friend had no farming experience and no idea about anything to do with free range chickens, but he thought it sounded like a good way to make some money - if he could get some money to start with. "A man told me he would sell me twelve chickens for two-hundred dollars."
All I can think of is Bicky Bickersteth. "I mean to say it's an absolute cert if you once get a bit of capital. You buy a hen, and it lays an egg every day of the week, and you sell the eggs, say, seven for twenty-five cents..."
I'm watching one of those "Judge So-and-so" shows with my grandmother. Someone is suing his friend for money lost in the friend's free-range chicken business idea.
The friend had no farming experience and no idea about anything to do with free range chickens, but he thought it sounded like a good way to make some money - if he could get some money to start with. "A man told me he would sell me twelve chickens for two-hundred dollars."
All I can think of is Bicky Bickersteth. "I mean to say it's an absolute cert if you once get a bit of capital. You buy a hen, and it lays an egg every day of the week, and you sell the eggs, say, seven for twenty-five cents..."
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Date: 2011-06-08 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-08 08:15 pm (UTC)Also, I'm sitting here cracking up over your icon. It makes me so happy.
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Date: 2011-06-09 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-08 08:34 pm (UTC)Second, this is particularly amusing to me because I also keep chickens. And my god, I paid somewhere around $2.50 a piece for them as chicks and that was kind of expensive.
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Date: 2011-06-08 09:11 pm (UTC)And the icon is made of awesome. Now I want the fic to go with it. *grabbyhands* ;)
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Date: 2011-06-08 09:20 pm (UTC)http://agentanachronism.dreamwidth.org/5406.html?#cutid1
Even free range chickens need shelter and supplemental food and vet bills and workers to collect the eggs and so on. That's why I was so amused by Bicky's innocent plan. It's hysterical that people are still thinking of it as a get rich quick scheme! Bertie really was the brains of the Drones club, wasn't he?
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Date: 2011-06-09 08:50 am (UTC)And yeah, it's not like chickens make eggs out of nothing! A get rich quick scheme it is not - I just about break even each month selling my surplus eggs to offset the feed costs. I am afraid Bertie is the brains of the drones cub.
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