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We’ve been giving out stuff handed down by the estate of PPP’s late, generous benefactor, John Beresford Tipton. Now this giveaway stuff is admittedly mostly expired snacks, and we were giving it to the fortunate (unfortunate?) winners of our little contests (for singing, acting or making faces) during the last 15 minute segment of our ping pong sessions. Well, in a similarly generous spirit, there’s this Chinese philanthropist (he requests anonymity) who wanted to give PPP a donation of some of those 1000 year old eggs he had hanging around. But I had to tell him that none of us at PPP could eat them because they were probably well beyond the expected shelf life (expiration date was probably somewhere in the middle ages). I surely didn’t want to insult him or his culture - or deter future donations - so I asked him if he had any eggs that were only 500 years old instead, since we could probably use those. He looked at me askance (I don’t know why he gave me that suspicious look), and walked away shaking his head. Oh, well, I didn’t mean to offend him, or anything. C’est la ville! Can’t please everybody. |
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