From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
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On 10/30/2014 09:13 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
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>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Looking for an Xmas gift for your favorite
>astrologer or Jyotishi?
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>There are free apps on Android that do that.
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>You really don't understand the concept of "rich people toys," do you?
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>-- Quarter-million-dollar watch
from a famous French jeweler:
YES
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>-- Free app that runs on a free
platform on cheap telephones: NO
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>:-)
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Yup they wouldn't be absurdly rich if they weren't so narcissistic.
Indeed. Suffice it to say I'm not a rich person. I'm not poor by any stretch of
the imagination, but I really never cared enough about being rich to try to get
that way, so I didn't. But for some reason I've managed to know and interact
with a few rich people in my life, and that experience has left me with an
enduring curiosity about them.
For this reason every so often I pick up a copy of one of those
10-12-Euros-a-pop glossy magazines around here that obviously cater to the
rich. I like to do this primarily for the ads in the magazines -- I like to see
what rich people's "consumer items" are, as opposed to what yours and mine are.
It's utterly fascinating. $50,000 fountain pens. $100,000 bicycles. Cars that
turn into helicopters. Wretched excess, in sharp, professionally-done
photographic splendor in every ad. I make it a point to buy one of these
magazines at least once a year and peruse it thoroughly to help me remember to
be grateful that I'm *not* rich, and thus *not* looking at it as an
advertisement for what my life should look like.
On 10/30/2014 06:51 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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>>How about a watch that displays the position of the six planets visible from
>>the Earth, in real time. A bargain at only $250,000.
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>>Van Cleef & Arpels Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium
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