Re: 'Dog' revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 03-12-03 12:01, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > I am sorry if I might have upset some British sensibilities ;-) I
> > never intended to give the impression that those traders traded

their

> > dogs. Besides, it would simply be uneconomical.
>
> That reminds me of the man who wanted to sell his dog for a hundred
> thousand dollars. There were no takers, so he finally traded it for

two

> fifty-thousand-dollar cats

The dog was actually a horse, the cats were pigs, and the buyer was
Belgian. I know that for a fact, since I heard the story in Holland.

Torsten