news:Xns960241794FE54moogmoogmoogmoog@130.133.1.4...
> "Tony McChrystal" wrote in uk.sport.football on Sat, 19 Feb
> 2005 00:59:36 GMT:
>
> > Did he keep the receipt?
>
> If he sold the world, he wouldn't need a receipt. Perhaps he
> would have invoiced the purchaser though. I doubt the purchaser
> still has the receipt either, otherwise he'd have taken it back
> under the Argos "16 day, no quibble, money back guarantee" or
> something.

You're not far off, Moogy, but still wrong.  Nice to see you though.
Anyway, as the thread title implies, there was actually once a man who owned
the entire world, and he sold it.  This is going a long way back, mind you,
sometime in the 19th century.  Sir Charles Charlie-Warner, entrepreneur,
tycoon, call him what you like but the man built up the vastest fortune ever
known with his own bare hands, starting out from nothing but a couple of
shiny sixpences, a gutful of determination and an eye for a good deal.  The
man charmed, smarmed, wheeled, dealed and basically blagged his way to the
very top of society, trading predominantly in real-estate, precious metals,
oil and meat pies to start off with, but eventually he had a finger in every
other type of pie as well.  Got to a point, he actually owned every single
thing in the entire world.

He still wasn't happy though, the greedy cunt, and so he worked on an
elaborate plan to own the whole universe.  Needed to free up a little
capitol to start off with, so he arranged to sell planet Earth, including
all it's mountains and seas and whatnot, to a conglomerate of equally greedy
international tycoons.  Interest free credit for one year.  Got the wording
wrong on the contract, though, careless mistake but he put "world" instead
of "Earth", and inadvertently sold not just the planet, but everything on it
including himself and all the money he was due from the deal.  Within
minutes they had him dressed as the Easter Bunny, dancing round the room for
their entertainment and singing "everything I have or will ever has is now
yours, masters".

They got bored of that pretty quickly though, and sold the rest of the world
on in pieces to anyone in the world who could afford some of the world, and
then they retired to Hednesford.  True story.

Joe
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