JAY EMRIE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

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RJT>A welcome change from the damn-near-dead state the echo was in some 
RJT>time ago. I tend to have that effect,  sometimes.  

RJT> GM> ... A penny saved is pretty d*** ridiculous these days.

RJT>Yeah,  but throw enough of them into a can and after a while they add up.

JE> Yeah, like one of our illustrious politicians said a while
JE> back about spending money, " A million here, and a million
JE> there and a million somewhere else and pretty soon your are
JE> talking about real money!"

That was Everett Dirksen,  and he said "billion"...

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