A couple of months ago, I signed up for DISH tv. I've paid the 2 bills
they sent me since then for the amounts they said I owed. A few days
ago, I got another snailmail bill for.......wait for
it..............$0.02. Literally 2 cents. Literally. I don't know how
much it cost them to generate, print, and mail that letter, but I'll
bet it was more than 2 cents. OTOH, as I reorient and reevaluate my
calculus and context at the end of the day going forward, there's
probably no price too high to pay to show me who's the boss.

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On 12/29/2022 11:26 AM, bfh wrote:
> A couple of months ago, I signed up for DISH tv. I've paid the 2 bills
> they sent me since then for the amounts they said I owed. A few days
> ago, I got another snailmail bill for.......wait for
> it..............$0.02. Literally 2 cents. Literally. I don't know how
> much it cost them to generate, print, and mail that letter, but I'll bet
> it was more than 2 cents. OTOH, as I reorient and reevaluate my calculus
> and context at the end of the day going forward, there's probably no
> price too high to pay to show me who's the boss.
>

I know just what you're gonna do - give them your 2 cent's worth...

kmiller wrote:
> On 12/29/2022 11:26 AM, bfh wrote:
>> A couple of months ago, I signed up for DISH tv. I've paid the 2
>> bills they sent me since then for the amounts they said I owed. A
>> few days ago, I got another snailmail bill for.......wait for
>> it..............$0.02. Literally 2 cents. Literally. I don't know
>> how much it cost them to generate, print, and mail that letter, but
>> I'll bet it was more than 2 cents. OTOH, as I reorient and
>> reevaluate my calculus and context at the end of the day going
>> forward, there's probably no price too high to pay to show me who's
>> the boss.
>>
>
> I know just what you're gonna do - give them your 2 cent's worth...

According to Snopes:
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"Here's my two cents" in the sense of airing an unsolicited opinion
dates only to the mid-1920s, and likely began in the U.S. It appears
to be an extension of the usage noted above, in that the "two cents"
is employed as a way of saying "Here's my little bit of nothing."
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Based on that context and inflation during the passage of time, at the
end of the day going forward, I'll have to give them my 33 cents worth
if I want to be efficacious. However comma the metrics of the calculus
of my own annoyance/benefit ratio say just pay them 2 cents in today's
pennies - and then hope I don't find myself on a slippery slope.

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.