Sunday, July 10, 2005

L&S: Great Libertarian Pick-Up Lines

Tom has told the story of meeting his wife at an IHS seminar in 1988. He introduced himself and said "I'm trying out anarcho-capitalism for a year." He reports "for some reason, she found this to be a turn-on." I don't recommend this strategy. Ex ante, Tom might have been better off betting on being hit by lightning than having that line work.

3 comments:

Glen Whitman said...

High risk, high return, Steve.

Steven Horwitz said...

And almost no down-side risk!

Tom W. Bell said...

Oh, yeah, Glen, she hit that one right. I was lucky enough to both have a good pickup line *and* get struck by a dgm-bolt.