The Bargainer<\/b><\/p>\n
Our mammas did not hesitate to bargain. Questioning a price was standard procedure. \u201cHow much are these cucumbers?\u201d \u201cTwo for five.\u201d The mamma pushed one aside. \u201cAnd how much is this one?\u201d \u201cThree cents.\u201d \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll take the other one.\u201d – Sam Levenson<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
No Bargain!<\/b><\/p>\n
Never buy a portable TV set on the sidewalk from a man who\u2019s out of breath.<\/p>\n
Quoted in Funny Funny World<\/p>\n
Elephants<\/b><\/p>\n
New York City\u2019s Mayor David N. Dinkins, when urged by Manhattan officials to buy some property thought to be an \u201cextraordinary opportunity for the city,\u201d said: \u201cIf they\u2019re selling elephants two for a quarter, that\u2019s a great bargain. But only if you have a quarter\u2014and only if you need elephants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leonard Buder in New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bargainer Our mammas did not hesitate to bargain. Questioning a price was standard procedure. \u201cHow much are these cucumbers?\u201d \u201cTwo for five.\u201d The mamma pushed one aside. \u201cAnd how much is this one?\u201d \u201cThree cents.\u201d \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll take the other one.\u201d – Sam Levenson Source unknown No Bargain! Never buy a portable TV set … Continue reading “Bargain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}