James Carlson wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > Uhm... "estimations" will never be accurate (and I agree, my posting was
> > some kind of inaccurate "milchmädchenrechnung" (=I don't know a matching
> > english word for that)).
> 
> I don't think we really have a phrase that's exactly the same, though
> maybe saying that one is serving watered-down whiskey would be close.
> (The missing bit is the sense that the accounting and results are
> based on that bit of fraud.)

Grumpf... that wasn't thought as "fraud" ... I've been asked for numbers
several times to show how much could be saved... unfortunately the way I
created the numbers was completely braindead (and "yes" ... I am still
licking my wounds from that... ;-( ) ... ;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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