🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <01be1a4a$51bb8b20$0f02000a@chucktop>,
tonyp <tonyp@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>Adam Kippes <adam.kippes@pobox.com> wrote in article
><3660cf39.7481253@vnntp.ma.ultranet.com>...
>> In <73mhom$ffn$2@news1.rmi.net>, "Dan D." <dand@rmi.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > ->Time for a war.  The easiest way to halve the number of hungry people
>in
>> > ->the world is to kill them.
>>  
>> > ... and feed them to the remaining half.
>> 
>> Isn't there an old joke about a money making scam based on something like
>> that principle?
>> 
>
>Soylent Green aside, this reminds me of a prospectus allegedly put out by
>some promoter in the Midwest last century, when for some reason there was a
>demand for cat fur.  The proposed company was going to start a cat ranch. 
>To feed the cats, they were going to start a rat ranch next door.  The rats
>were to be fed the cat carcasses.  Thus "we feed the rats to the cats, and
>the cats to the rats, and we get the pelts for free."
>
>Don't ask me where or when this bit of trivia stuck itself like a piece of
>lint to the cobwebs of my memory, but I'm not making it up.  Also, don't
>ask me what the flaw in this scheme was :)

IIRC, this was a scheme from the thirties involving swamps in 
New Jersey.


Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

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