
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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