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[V-Adore]

See, that's at least sort of useful to the club members and such. In every group I've belonged to at college, the eventual "what do we do with the budget?" or "oh, shit, how do we make the budget stretch?" conversation tends to be much more prosaic, although occasionally extremely surreal. (I distinctly recall a days-long, frothingly angry debate over a club listserv from last year, all revolving around whether we should spend our last $200 on Laser Tag equipment or not. It turns out that basically every nerd ever has a passionate, violent opinion on Laser Tag, one way or the other.)

[CortJstr]

This reminds me of the classic $200 government toilet seat. Vendors figured out that the federal computer system would automatically approve the reorder of supplies as long as the price wasn't 10%+ more than last time. So the vendors just increased their prices by like 8% everytime. Which eventually began to add up to 800%+ increases.

Or so The Legend goes.