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Date Posted: 11:12:56 02/21/03 Fri
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Xpltivdletd (ello fragging L)
's message, "Ever hear of Industrial magnate J. Howard Dank?" on 12:25:17 01/06/03 Mon
>He is said to have lived from the middle 1800s to
>early 1900s. Towards the end, he professed to believe
>all the nation's ills could be cured if every man,
>woman & child had a can of paint-thinner and a scrub
>brush.
>
>(to be continued)...
As with all stories of wealth--where there's a will, there's a whine. J.H. Dank was no exception. Distant relatives and wannabees who had no idea what Mr. Dank intended to do with his fortune still tried to get something done about it. Dank had access to the finest justice money can buy, and his actual will was bulletproof.
Those who can--do, as they have always done. Those who can't--strive to plunder the fruits of the labor of others, as they have always done. In J.H. Dank's day, this wasn't as easy because governments had not refined the art of "redistributing" wealth. Dank had a will the covetous couldn't even locate until his lawyers announced it would be read. Those who actually tried to contest it didn't have a snowball's chance in {theological place of eternal punishment}.
This industrial baron had built a huge empire from a single shop. His investments and his own hard work had produced enormous wealth. In his will, his employees were all comfortably retired and his assets were liquidated. With the cash this produced, his lawyers began to buy and to distribute little cans of paint-thinner and scrub-brushes. The process took most of two years, but in the end, every man, woman and child in this great land received a half-pint of paint thinner, a scub-brush and an exhortation to clean something up.
His actual heirs were satisfied; they believed it was his to do-with as he saw fit, just as they hoped one day to do with whatever was theirs. The rest of the pack--well, the judge who agreed to listen to their whining believed in a clean America, too. He listened. Then he threw them out. Today, few remember the names in this odd little drama. But we still preserve the memory of this eccentric, self-made aristocrat and the way he got the last word.
Surely you've heard of the commemoration--of Dank's Giving Thinner!
RKBA! Regards, all. Go back to sleep. I'll lock up.
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