Wait! Are you telling me that Elias Fardo and UsuallyReasonable may be one and the same persons, or maybe both? If that's true, then I'm not confused? If I am, it's probably me-- that's confused? Not you?

In other words, I may have fallen for a ruse and bought the darned book, The Berkshire Hathaway Christmas Poems of Usually Reasonable, based on incompleletely and possibly fraudulent information -- for the sum of $7.99?

This is very distressing. I reached into my pocketbook to help a poor soul and paid the price of gullibility. Woe! Could I be the reason for my participation in what could be a hare-brained expenditure of not only the price of the book, but the time it took to read the first two pages? Nay! Don't tell me even spending 35-plus years not understanding my misunderstanding about Berkshire Hathaway and its dubious culture was gullible? I don't have a yacht, that's true!

Spoiler Alert: I did kind of like the extra sheet of paper tucked into the front of TBHCPoUR. Although I'm pretty sure the person or persons, whoever they are, meant the Yellow Berk group on AOL, which would more than explain the slightly perfectly written stanzas that followed, at least on the first one and a half pages, entitled, "1999," which it turns out could only have been written by someone a lot older than me. However, it was late at night and I couldn't follow them. Which reminds me, I wouldn't have started reading so late but Amazon, Japan, no less, delivered the package in the dead of night, which was when I noticed it.

And another thing, Amazon delivers things at night, all hours, actually, and so... but did the famous Buffett/Munger Team buy Amazon in 1999? No! Probably the real reason I don't have a yacht.

All that said, I might read the next page of, TBHCPoUR. Maybe finish "1999," someday, "if I can stand it," because they are slightly perfect.
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1 Star (I would have left zero stars for admitted dishonesty)

5.5 Stars (For effort, and to support UsuallyReasonable, who sounds like he's still down on his luck. Even if he deserved it, everyone deserves a second chance. Let's hope Fardo does the right thing.)

Any misspellings, grammar and punctuation are because of Elias Fardo, a questionable character, and the reason for all of this.
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Also, it could be, and this is just a partial conjecture and I could be wrong, and this has nothing to do with anything, but Charlie was "99" when he died. And Halloween, this week. Right? And, the last year of the last century, was "99!" Get it?! Anyway, I've been hearing that poetry about this sort of thing, BH, in particular, using a mirror and read backward by the light of this particular waning moon, this particular Halloween, might be the key I am looking for. Not that I want a yacht, no, but Charlie always said, "Invert. Invert." Why?!

The mirror, right?
Someday, I'll get the MI board.