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"What is it?" he'd [Bigfoot] tell them on the phone, playing the
confused dumbo for a while before the metal jaws clamped shut.  "I
don't pay quickly enough to get the good stuff?  Is there something
<em>wrong</em> with my business that you want to send me garbage?  Or
is it that I'm stupid?  Maybe my stupidity makes you figure, well ...
that I <em>want</em> the kind of shit you send me.  Or maybe ... I
<em>am</em> stupid ... maybe I can't recognize fresh fish ... maybe
this smelly piece of <em>shit</em> is really fresh ... and I just ...
can't recognize it.  Maybe I've <em>encouraged</em> you somehow ... to
inconvenience me and my customers.  May be you could explain to me ...
because I'm having a <em>problem</em> ... you know ... figuring it out
... because I'm so <em>stupid</em>.  Or maybe ... maybe you're just
<em>really really rich guys</em> and you don't need my business at
all.  Things are going so <em>well</em> for you ... you figure you
don't need the money."

Anthony Bourdain, <cite>Kitchen
		   Confidential</cite>, p. 40

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