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A truism of life:

If you drive an R8 around, eat the best pizza you can and dress as Da Vinci, people will call you crazy and lock you up.

If you drive an R8 around, eat the best pizza you can and dress as Da Vinci when you $35,000,000 in the bank, people pleasantly refer to you as eccentric and like having you around.



Eccentrism is by no means the sole privilege of the rich. Emperor Norton was a famously broke, yet grandiose fellow who was beloved throughout the city of San Francisco in the late 1800s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton


You can draw any line you like through a single data point. But you also kind of missed the original reference.


I suppose having my deferment rubbed in my face like that might rankle




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