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Elsewhere, this has come as something of a let-down. | Elsewhere, this has come as something of a let-down. | ||
Everything we were taught in school led us to believe that the strong silent types who were incredibly popular, handsome, captained the first XV, led mountaineering expeditions to K2, sang baritone in the Chapel Choir, won the inter-house Tae Kwon Do competition and relentlessly victimised the unfortunate weedy kids who hung out in the computer lab toting | Everything we were taught in school led us to believe that the strong silent types who were incredibly popular, handsome, captained the first XV, led mountaineering expeditions to K2, sang baritone in the Chapel Choir, won the inter-house Tae Kwon Do competition and relentlessly victimised the unfortunate weedy kids who hung out in the computer lab toting 7” floppies with hacked copies of Castle Wolfenstein, misappropriating their [[lunch money]], were the ones in life destined to win, have glamorous wives, beautiful children, and swan about in late-model race-tuned BMW roadsters. | ||
But no: a glance around a trading floor tells quite a different story. Losing a bit of pocket money in one's teens transpires to be quite the formative experience, it seems. | But no: a glance around a trading floor tells quite a different story. Losing a bit of pocket money in one's teens transpires to be quite the formative experience, it seems. | ||
{{ | ===In [[Finance Fiction]] mytholody=== | ||
The Geek paradox is encapsulated in the story of the [[First Men]], [[Lanchmani]] foragers from the ancient northern city of [[Salomoné]], in the [[Nerdal Plains]]. The most famous of the [[Lanchmani]] were [[Reg Margin]] and his Carpathian friend [[Vlad Paripasu]], not himself ethnically Lanchmani, but similarly weak, cerebral and cunning, so fitted right in. | |||
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*[[Best in class]] | *[[Best in class]] | ||
*[[Shi-tzu]] | *[[Shi-tzu]] | ||