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The waiting list for a new Rolls-Royce is now five years and there is a shortage of crew members for superyachts. Worldwide, 688 yachts measuring more than 80ft were launched and there will be 250 more this year.

I'm getting lost in the mix of metaphors and reality there: is this trickle down, or the rising tide that lifts all boats?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 07:21:51 AM EST
Rolls-Royces are damn ugly, too!

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 07:36:29 AM EST
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And they're very bad on mileage too.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 07:40:02 AM EST
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The only point of status things is the status.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
by A swedish kind of death on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 08:33:46 AM EST
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Well, I was thinking of buying one but I decided the cost of operation was too high.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 08:55:27 AM EST
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A friend of mine decided not to buy one after a test drive cos he said they were old fashioned and the suspensions were rubbish.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 09:23:21 AM EST
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They lie.  

While they SAY a "rising tide lifts all boats" (an economic principle that actually works BTW) what they actually practice is an impossible concept "a rising yacht lifts all tides" that, of course, has never worked because it violates all known laws of physics."

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 07:39:49 PM EST
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hmmm.

I suppose though that in a small enough harbor, a sinking yacht could raise all boats.

Eureka?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 at 11:28:00 PM EST
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