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Puzzler, 6/27/98: What A Deal!

RAY: We're back. You're listening to CarTalk with us, Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers, and we're here to discuss cars, car repair, and the --

TOM: And the --

RAY: The new puzzler. Now, I did with reservation say that this was a not a new puzzler, because it may be new to most of our listeners who are what, new listeners.

TOM: That's all of them.

RAY: Because we don't have any old listeners really.

TOM: All right.

RAY: All right. Here it is. A man goes into a hardware store to purchase something for his house. He asks the clerk how much is one? The guy says 60 cents. He says OK. How 'bout 12? A dollar twenty. He says OK, I'll take 200. The guy says that will be a dollar eighty. What was he buying? Very simple, right?

TOM: Wow.

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