Well, people are paying up to $7,000.00 for a beanie baby for God's sake.
Now, we have aspiring actresses trying to auction their ovum for college
tuition?

I dread to think what will happen when this economy takes a large dump and
goes
down to nothing. The fact is, in my mind, at least, too many people with
too much money!!!


Bobby


>In a Vonnegut-like world, Bobby, what would beauty look like anyway?  Are
>Beautiful People already the mean regressed?
>
>Perhaps we CPs would rule?
>
>I rather suspect that sitting on top of the totem pole has a downside to its
>upside.  Still might be worth a try.
>
>Life's full of smoke and mirrors.  We forget.
>
>Steve M.
>
>
>From: Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: What Next?
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:43:45
>
>Steve,
>
>        My wife called my attention to this auction. We learned in
>Genetics
>way back in '58, the principle of "regression toward the mean". That is,
>if
>you are out on any extreme, be it height, weight, intelligence, etc.
>your
>off spring
>will more likely be back toward the mean.
>        BTW, Joyce(my wife) and I decided we have done our bit to clean
>the
>gene pool. We adopted!!!
>
>Bobby