RE: [Dave Barry] Be an Internet Millionaire and we may like you.

Joseph S. Barrera III (joe@barrera.org)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:24:45 -0700


> > This seems like a paradox, but there's a very logical
> > economic explanation: Internet investors have the brains of
> > grapefruit. If you started a company called Set Fire To Piles of
> > Money.com, they'd be beating down your door.

> Um, isn't he being a little generous in his comparison of something
> the size of grapefruit to the approximation of their grey matter?

No, no, no. He didn't say "brains the size of a grapefruit",
he said "brains *of* a grapefruit".

Dave Barry (just like Steve Nordquist) doesn't make sense
unless you read his work carefully and think about it
for a while.

- Joe