"So I'm guessing you hurt your ankle tripping over the hamster?" I said to the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week.
"You don't seem terribly surprised," he replied, leaning back in his chair with his feet on the desk, his left ankle still encased in plaster. "I'm not," I said. "For one thing, Adair is the size of an obese Jack Russell terrier so it is frankly astonishing you haven't had any rodent-related mishaps before." "Aside from when he shot me in 2008, of course," the chairman pointed out. "Aside from that," I agreed. "But we both know that was a complete accident and he had only the most noble of intentions." Just to prove I don't make this up as I go along - at least, not all the time - it ...
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