cheerful_deviant
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In April, according to a New York Times story, when a Japanese art collector sought to choose between Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses to handle a sale (which ultimately brought in $17.8 million) and quixotically asked the two houses to play rock-paper-scissors for the privilege, Sotheby's lost out on the eventual $2.3 million commission by choosing paper. (A Christie's executive quoted one of his 11-year-old daughters: "Everybody knows you always start with scissors.") [New York Times, 4-29-05]
You gotta wonder how the guy from Sotheby's explained that one to his boss when he got back to the office.
You gotta wonder how the guy from Sotheby's explained that one to his boss when he got back to the office.
