Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:42:21 -0800 From: "JB Froke" <jbfroke@msn.com> To: "classicrendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Having your fake and eating it, too.
Someone suggested we quit this thread, but it wasn't Dale.... Besides, I'm not done pretending to be clever.
You have $120. And I have three pairs of truly fine fake Campy hoods that you can have (any or all pairs) at $40 per; BUT I also have one pair of truly fine NOS Campy hoods that you can have for $100. (Now, all FOUR pairs to look at are just virtually indistinguishable). Next, what if I offered to put all four pairs in a Keno hopper, spin it like crazy and let you pick a pair, or two, for $50 per. If you obliged me thus far, what would you do?
"The voice of the schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'" Sir Henry John Newbolt, 'The Island Race' (1898)
JB Froke, Pebble Beach CA
Easy - under those circumstances, I'll pick the genuine ones, every single time. Not even difficult.
One BIG flaw in your theory - the fakes don't look all that much like the real ones, especially in a side by side comparison! If they looked the same, we wouldn't be having this discussion....
Greg Parker
Dexter, Michigan