> On 6/01/2011 11:07, Stephen wrote:
>> Everyone knows that the best copper comes from Olympic Dam (SA) where it
>> is refined by burying it in beetroot for 3 years, smelted with roo dung,
>> quenched with VB and drawn into strands by wallabies then left in the
>> cludgie to get insulated.
>
> nah, no-one would believe that, look, the yanks don't even put beetroot on
> their burgers, they'd never accept it's used to purify their copper.
>
> the fact is, the *best* copper comes from asteroids. now, being that we
> can't quite yet go sailing out to one to get the buggers back ere, we're
> constrained to getting it, grain by grain, from bits of said rocks that
> have happened to fall to earth as meteors - which, due to their rarity,
> explains why Best Buy is able to get away with charging>$2000 for HDMI cables.
>
> after all, no-one would actually *pay* that much for a cable if there
> wasn't a really good reason.
>
> right?
>

The reason most will give you is:
At that price, it *MUST* be a very good cable!

The fact that there are others much cheaper that are just as good is of 
no concern. They will tell you that the cheaper cable just can't be as 
good, that it's impossible. Even if the cheap and grosly expensive 
cables are exactly the same with only a different packaging.



Alain

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