- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Shirley Glibb
DISCOUNTS UP TO 50% AND MORE! One weekend, some of us therapists, on a day off from the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, wanted to go shopping in town. We had seen an ad The Sleeveless Vest, our town's main clothing emporium, had run in the Underbelly Prerecorder saying "Discounts up to 50% and more!"
Amelia Raitt Payne, the institute physician, was with us, and I asked, "Amelia, what does this mean? I'm confused. ‘Up to 50%' I get. ‘Discounts of 50% and more' I get. But both?"
Dr. Payne's diagnosis was simple: "They're idiots."
Good thing she sticks to physical ailments.
Clara Dix remarked that the ad line was a contradictory as saying usually always.
We called the store, told them we weren't shopping there and why, and felt so much better that we drove down to Los Libidos and spent more than we would have at home.
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