> > > as such can be in Detroit, for 17K. Now, the average house in 
> > Detroit 
> > > is worth 60K, though this one probably would go for less, if 
it's 
> > still 
> > > standing.
> > That same house in Boston would be 300K, is my guess. 
> 
> More like 4 or 5, but who's counting.
> 
Way out of our mutual price range, anyway.  I'm betting you could 
tack another 100 thou on the front in San Francisco.

> > made out OK, especially he sold out at the height of the market 
in 
> > the 80s and bought Apple stock instead.
> 
> I think he got killed off, or at least Ian Fleming did. It is
> every child's dream, to surf the top of the investment wave
> and voluntarily wipe out without being wiped out. 

Not every child, but ever business major at least. 
 
> > > Well, yeah, but his story shows that there may be some hope.
> > A friend of mine, skinny as a rail, didn't get hitched for the 
first 
> > time until he was almost 60.  Total geek/nerd with a thing for 
> > marathon bike rides.  
> 
> Well, hitched and relationed are different, plus there
> are late bloomers, plus as the population ages, the
> pool (traditionally of women but true to some extent
> of guys) gets more desperate and less selective.
> 
His late wife (unfortunately) thought she'd won the lottery and he 
felt (feels) the same way.  Late bloomers in this case.  

> > I only use them for greasy messes and cleaning up after the cat, 
more 
> > or less. 
> 
> I use them for these purposes, even pets too, when I'm in
> a household with one or, god forbid, more. Then I toss them.
> For aqueous spills, I keep them around, and of course the
> improvised snot rags also go into the back pocket, with the
> expectable results.

Snot in pocket.  
 
> > Yeahwell.  It's a byproduct, so producing butter requires no 
extra 
> > methane production.  It also tastes better, so there's that.
> 
> It requires keeping the cows barefoot and pregnant and in 
> good physical condition, so the methane cost is not zero.

True, but they're doing that to produce milk and more cows anyway.
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