Shoes Shine Boys

for a pair of shoes , should I go on strike in sympathy with them and demand that my fee be raised from $10,000 per bull to $15,000....?

Karin, your crass commercialism surprises even me. There is a much better way to resolve this problem. First, take 20% from the shoe shine boys as a licensing fee. Then offer them the right to increase their fee to 90c. Then, announce to the world that you are raising your bull charge to $20,000 in order to be able to fund free shoe shines for every patron of your bullring. Next, add a 20% surcharge to the admission tickets at your venue. Claim this is a healthcare tax to benefit the matadors. Use the procedes to give the matadors 100% coverage for any cancers they may develop which are diagnosed in the middle of the bullring during a moonlight bullfight. Invest the premiums thus collected in high yeild bonds, using the proceeds to expand seating at your bullring preparatory to the next strike by your shoe shine boys. Also, it is important that you apply now for your government grrant to build sky boxes for the polies, so they can watch the ensueing season in total luxury... Ole' Long live the bullfighter! Long live the bull
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2010-01-09 01:58:45 by karin

Footage from a documentary made in Xinjiang, China in 2007. This documentary is not yet released. The main hosts of this documentary are radio ...

My shoe shine boy this morning told me to buy oil, should I take his advice?

Well, I don´t personally think it is quite straight forward as every answer you have received so far, gives. Though I may agree with the Rockefeller story. Oil is obviously the main talking point and well it has been since December or last year when $100 per barrel was highly possible, indeed which it made in early January. The problem with the advice you have been given so far is that it fails to ignore one very basic element of standard economic understanding, the supply and demand issue. Supply is well known and highly documentated as decreasing. This due to political unrest and Opec decreasing output, is having an effect on supply. Also in one school of thinking, oil is believed to be reaching it´s maximum and depleting oil fields, particularly in the US, are starting to take their toll on supply too. We all know it is going to run out eventually, the question has always been when. It seems opec are starting to get scared it might be sooner rather than later so are looking for every last possible buck they can make before it goes completely.

The other factor is demand, which unless I live in a completely different world to those who have answered already, seems to be increasing. This slowing in supply and increasing in demand, always as far as economics is concerned has meant that the price of said product, in this case oil, always goes up. China and India are still quickly growing economies who are demanding more and more oil each day. The US still is the highest consumer and until the american opinion on biofuels, nuclear or more environmentally friendly forms of energy changes, they will still continually drive around in their 6 litre SUV´s drinking up the stuff as they go. As such on a very basic level, the price of oil will continue to increase in our present climate. Until we find something else to replace it with or the stock markets absolutely crash (which though possible is unlikely realistically to happen) then oil will continue to see good times ahead. That being said, the current state of world economics is still a bit precarious, though if you have a spare few pounds that you can afford to lose if the worst comes to the worst, oil is a fairly safe bet, even safer than houses. Though you have to think through the situation and the arguments for yourself, nobody else will and at the end of the day it is your money. Good luck.

2008-05-19 06:53:04 by Can anyone

Yeah he did, now go home and get your f*ckin' shine box!

2009-01-30 06:25:14 by User 11587365

The one made famous by the song.

I live about 35 miles from Chattanooga and at a restaurant there, there is a shoe shine boy. So I guess the answer to your question is yes there is. I know I saw him.

2006-05-27 07:50:15 by Mer-Dory - (Queen of Doryland)

Both of these songs came out in the early 80's. Shoe Shine Boy is by the Bus Boys and Little Susie is by Ozone. I haven't seen any file sharing community or record store that has either of these.

iTunes?

Nope, I checked, sorry. I got nothin.

2006-06-29 09:05:51 by elthe3rd