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8. There's an economics paper here to be written on Adams' Shoe Event Horizon:

Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:32 PM

Sep 2014

"It's Shoe Love, Pumping Up Sales
Spending Looking Up as Women Look Down"
Nov 19, 2005: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5409917

I posted, pointing out the similarity of "women love footwear, and they use it for a psychological boost" to the Shoe Event Horizon, which ends in "famine, collapse, and ruin". And, a couple of years later, we found out we had been in a bubble, after all.

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I would sneak Douglas Adams into my papers Warpy Sep 2014 #2

There's an economics paper here to be written on Adams' Shoe Event Horizon: muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #8

Love this! who says scientists don't have a sense of humor! LOL! Left coast liberal Sep 2014 #3

It's not Dylan, but dickthegrouch Sep 2014 #4

Not to mention the puns and denials of reality in the programs.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #6

Hilarious! tazkcmo Sep 2014 #5

In the 1980s, I was writing a manual for a computer text editor Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2014 #9