[Lancey Howard]

I think this deal is better than we initially thought.

The point is that there DID NOT NEED TO BE A DEAL AT ALL!!
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[maryz]

The point is that there DID NOT NEED TO BE A DEAL AT ALL!!

Isn't that a plot in thousands of books and movies? -- Some (usually well-meaning) dope sweats and struggles and finally brags breathlessly about his "accomplishment" of something that should NEVER have been accomplished at all! Somehow it's funnier in a P.G. Wodehouse novel.