Monday 17 November 2008

“everyone has a share.” The result of G20






Gordon Brown explains Milo Economics to the other leaders of the G20



Milo's M&M Enterpises syndicate is selling seven-cent Maltese eggs to the mess halls at a price of only five cents an egg while still making a profit.

How?

Seven-cent Maltese eggs cost the sellers in Malta four and one-quarter cents each to procure. Milo is actually buying the eggs from himself in Malta, which means that as a seller there he is making two and three-quarter cents each egg. After he resells the seven-cent eggs to the mess halls for five cents each, he is still making a three-quarter cent profit per egg.

However, it turns out that Milo's Maltese eggs are actually one-cent Sicilian eggs which he has secretly shipped to Malta to drive up their value, yielding him another three and one-quarter cents profit per egg.

 "I make a profit of three and one-quarter cents apiece, and everybody comes out ahead."

"Do I have a share?"

"Everybody has a share."

"Does Orr have a share?"

"Everybody has a share."

"And Hungry Joe? He has a share too?"

"Everybody has a share."

"Well, I'll be damned."

"What's good for M&M enterprises is good for the country"

But Orr crashed into the sea and when the crew went to inflate their life jackets..
The life jackets failed to inflate because Milo had removed the twin carbon-dioxide cylinders from the inflating chambers to make the strawberry and crushed-pineapple ice-cream sodas he served in the officer's mess hall and had replaced them with mimeographed notes that read: "What's good the M & M Enterprises is good for the country."

Chaplin: Cheer up Yossarian. Milo's selling oranges and the syndicate is making so much money.
Yossarian: We won't see any of that money. We won't even see the oranges.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:18 pm

    He's back.. and has made a Catch 22 statement.

    We will borrow our way out of the borrowing hole

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  2. I reckon the chocolate coated cotton Milo got left with, is the stuff they're using to poke in the cheeks of Grodonn Bruin as they're all pasty and with no substance.

    They can stick it everywhere else as far as I'm concerned.

    Somehow, I now have a recall of Private Frazer with embalming fluid plastered all over his face to make him look younger...

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  3. Scrobs: That is a truly hideous image.. But has the tone of old Frazier. Did you hear him getting a little Miss Jean Brodie on that report on his summit today?

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  4. "What would happen if everyone behaved like that?"

    "Then I'd be mad not to," Yossarian said.

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  5. redfern - brilliant comment. stole it for the next post!

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