somehow one thing or another in life all ends up being related to how much we paid for it. take for an example shoes. joel : hey man, nice shoes! where'd you get them? jarod : yea man, got them at the footlocker that day. twas a sale there. 50%! joel : dude no way, 50%? so how much did u pay for it? 2nd example. dude : hey is that your new car? dudette: yeah man. new car. MY new car. sweet ride innit? dude: yeayeah. that costs like what, $xxx,xxx.00? daimn. still not convinced? okay take this next example. : boy : happy valentine's darling! girl : oh happy valentine's to you too.. *hugs kisses etc.* boy : look what gift i got for you! *reveals a solitary sweet red rose and gives it to the girl* do you like it? girl: oh really you shouldnt!! *hugs the boy AND at THAT particular moment as they were hugging, she spots a HUGE bouquet of flowers over his back lying right at the back of the driver's seat.* *SCREAMS* ARE THOSE FOR ME TOO??? boy : uh.. no..they're um.. for my mom!yeah yeah thats right. *girl checks the card on the bouquet. it reads : TO MY LOVELY BOO-BOO* you call your mom boo-boo? (this is where we all know the boy made a cardinal sin. to actually lie to a girl so unconvincingly) well then i'm sure we all know what happens after that. and so. if the boy had gotten less extravagant flowers for whoever it was intended to, it might have been able to pass as a gift to his mom and he woulda gotten away with his lousy lie. but NO, he had to get some really expensive stuff. right. so where was i in this paradox? .......... ok this topic clearly isnt working for me right now so i'm just gonna stop here and present to you a perfectly logical theory : If you spend too much on roses and arent a good liar, you're at the bottom rung of the intelligence ladder. If you spend on one rose and arent a good liar, you're somewhere at the middle. and if you dont spend on anyone else at all, you're at the top. there.somehow i feel it lacks something. but oh well thats the best i can come up with right now and i've got homework to finish. so there you go. the wealth - intelligence (of roses and liars and valentine's) paradox. you may quote me on that. |