Invest him to the moon
Maybe it's just that I'm oddly cranky today, but today's strip totally makes me want to smack someone around. So much stupidity. Look, Al, there's a difference between being able to analyze financial investments and being able to divide. Knowing about how to invest does not make you a "mathematical whiz." (I'm rereading Confessions of a Shopaholic at the moment, about a financial columnist who can't manage her own money, which is more ironic than this situation.)
And where the heck is Theo a columnist? Between the typewriter (*sigh*) and the light hanging precariously over his desk, I can't imagine that it's for any sort of major newspaper or magazine, despite the assertion that he advises "millions." Right. Seriously, what has a circulation of millions? I thought for a moment that perhaps he's freelance (ooh, he might be syndicated!) and is working from home, but how does he get those columns in? I refuse to believe he has a fax machine, and what editor would accept a column that was faxed in?
And really, what financial columnist refuses to get with the times like this? How can "adequate returns" be "bullish"? Are these all for the same column?
This makes no sense. And I really don't feel like even having to think about finance stuff at the moment. I will say that those are some darn cheap oranges, though. And way to dress up to go to the grocery store, Theo.
Labels: supermarket, Topknot, work
posted by Barb @ 12:38 PM
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That's really weird. It would be easy to simply say "oh, he must have stopped at the store on the way home from work", except that the previous panel clear shows that's not what he wears at work. Maybe spending his days in casual dress working from home leaves him with the occasional urge to get dressed to the nines and go out, even if it's to somewhere as simple as the grocery store.
The 6 for 53 cents comes down to 8 and a third cents, while the 8 for 79 comes down to about 9.875 cents.
So the six is cheaper, but they're oranges, and he advises millions, he's fretting over the price of oranges?
He has more economic problems than that, if the low price of oranges gets him into a tizzy.
Mmm, I want an orange.
What he should do is take his business to a supermarket that properly displays the "price per unit" on the sign. But then again, he should probably also be using a word processor.
I don't believe in him. Far from "doing it every time," very, very rarely would a number cruncher who fancies himself a stock advisor have trouble figuring out simple arithmetic like that.
If nothing else, a rule-of-thumb calculation would note 6 for a rounded 54 cents - 9 cents - is obviously not as expensive as 8 for a rounded 80 cents - 10 cents, and that buying in bulk should make the price go DOWN perceptably, not UP.
I just don't believe in this Tooth Fairy advice guy. Or rather, given some of the fraudsters I've seen out there, if he does exist I know just how to place him.
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