>>> T-EZ: Yep, instant experts seem to be coming out of the woodwork these days. What's next? Guess they'll be on the neurosurgery BBS telling surgeons how to do a frontal lobotomy using a gold-plated scapel. Hey, it must be better--it's gold plated! <<<<<<

Actually, titanium is the way to go. A client of mine owns a fly-fishing store. He likes to joke about how his customers will buy anything as long as its made out of titanium. Then I spent some time watching the actual behavior of his customers and I discovered that he was not really joking. He has knives, tackle boxes and all kinds of gadgets in both titanium and in conventional materials. The titanium far outsells the other stuff. And to make it even funniers, most of his customers actually are doctors and surgeons.

Douglas Wolfe

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