The practical applications of financial alchemy Orly? Just make sure you put it in a good looking bag Bartering of personally created goods/services Bartering of second-hand goods/services And you're next Today I brew, tomorrow I bake; And then the queen's child I will take; For no one knows my little game; That Rumpelstiltskin is my name! Blame society with the low moral standards and the high beauty expectations! Trading pieces of paper, with numbers on A Khan Academy tutorial of historical value The costs of making - even a bad - Hollywood movie are as ridiculous as the current cinema ticket prices 
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*                                                        selective incoherence *
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*                                                                   17/02/2012 *
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* "The practical applications of financial alchemy"                            *
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*                                                     by Konstantinos Gkoutzis *
*                                                     http://kgk.gr/sinc/0004/ *
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* #SINC#0004#01#                                                               *
* <Mom> How was your day at school Tommy?                                      *
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* <Tommy> It was great mom! I learned                                          *
*         how the economy works!                                               *
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* <Mom> That's wonderful!!                                                     *
*       What did you do?                                                       *
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* #SINC#0004#02#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> First, I went to the toilet and                                      *
*         pooped into a small bag                                              *
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* <Mom> What!!??                                                               *
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* #SINC#0004#03#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> I then gave the bag to Billy to pull a prank                         *
*         on Helen, because she didn't agree to go                             *
*         steady with him, and he gave me some                                 *
*         rare sports stickers from his collection                             *
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* #SINC#0004#04#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> I then traded those stickers with Johnny,                            *
*         because I knew he wanted them bad,                                   *
*         and he gave me 6 small figurines of                                  *
*         famous singers and actors                                            *
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* #SINC#0004#05#                                                               *
* <Tommy> I then made a bet with 6 girls: my figurines                         *
*         for a kiss from each! I bet that Helen would                         *
*         lose the running race at gym class and                               *
*         she indeed lost because, during the race,                            *
*         someone threw a bag of poop to her face                              *
*                                                                              *
* <Mom> Erm...                                                                 *
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* #SINC#0004#06#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> The girls at first argued that the bet was                           *
*         not fair but I told them we had an official                          *
*         agreement and if they didn't keep their                              *
*         promise I would ruin their reputation                                *
*         and integrity in the whole school,                                   *
*         so they got scared and gave in                                       *
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* #SINC#0004#07#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> I made each of the 6 girls give a kiss                               *
*         to Daniel, the nasty rich boy, and he                                *
*         gave me the expensive wrist watch                                    *
*         he got for his birthday                                              *
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* #SINC#0004#08#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> During recess, I snuck out of school,                                *
*         went to a nearby pawn shop and traded                                *
*         the watch for two "50" banknotes                                     *
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* #SINC#0004#09#                                                               *
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* <Tommy> At last period, right before our school's                            *
*         "Debate Contest", I secretly gave the two                            *
*         50s to two out of the three judges,                                  *
*         and I won the Gold Medal with                                        *
*         the majority of votes: 2/3!                                          *
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* #SINC#0004#10#                                                               *
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* <Mom> ...and what did you learn from this?                                   *
*                                                                              *
* <Tommy> I learned that, in order to succeed in this world,                   *
*         all you have to do is find people who                                *
*         appreciate your shit!                                                *
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* Official URL of this comic strip: http://kgk.gr/sinc/0004/                   *
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* The sketches were created by me, using a pen tablet, poorly.                 *
* The three troll faces are from the Interwebz.                                *
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* This work is licensed under a Creative Commons                               *
* Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License                      *
* (free to download and share, not sell or edit)                               *
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