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 :“Look: on average, grey squirrels have more nuts than red squirrels. This cannot be denied. Is it not so?”
 :“It is so,” said the Statistician. “The data are very clear about this.”
-:“This, as we have said, is unjust. Social structures are illegitimately weighted to favour those great big fat grey squirrels.”
+:“''Exactly''. This, as we have said, is unjust. Social structures are illegitimately weighted to favour those great big fat, greasy grey squirrels.”
-:“Hey!” said a passing grey squirrel. “Enough of the fat-shaming.”
+:“Hey!” said a passing grey squirrel. “Enough of the fat-shaming. And the trash-talking about grease, for that matter.”
-:“Therefore,” continued the red, “as  we red squirrels are systematically repressed, it follows as a matter of inexorable logic, that ''this'' red squirrel, Errol, must have ''fewer'' than his rightful allocation of nuts, and ''this'' grey squirrel, Frank, has too many.”
+:“Therefore,” continued the Red Leader, “as we red squirrels are systematically repressed, it follows as a matter of inexorable logic, that ''this'' red squirrel, Errol, has ''fewer'' than his rightful allocation of nuts..”
+:“I do?” said Errol.
+:“ ... and ''this'' grey squirrel, Frank, has too many.”
 :“What?” said Frank, crinkled his brow, but got on with munching.
 :“Well, I suppose so,” said Errol.
 :“Don’t let the side down!” hissed the Red Leader.
 :“Therefore, great Statistitican, we propose that henceforth wel systematically deprive Errol, and grey squirrels like him, of nuts, and give them to Frank, and similar red squirrels, to correct the imbalance.”