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    <title>the half-wit by dearpesar | English, baby! Blogs</title>
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      <title>the half-wit</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:05:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>dearpesar</author>
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      <description>&lt;h2&gt;the half-wit&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana"&gt;The Half-Wit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;A man owned a small farm in the south west of WA.&lt;br /&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Department of Consumer &amp;amp; Employment Protection&amp;nbsp;heard that he was not paying proper wages to his&amp;nbsp;employees and sent an agent&amp;nbsp;down to interview him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;&amp;#39;I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,&amp;#39; &lt;br /&gt;demanded the agent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;&amp;#39;Well,&amp;#39; replied the farmer, &amp;#39;there&amp;#39;s my farm hand who&amp;#39;s been with me for 3 years.&amp;nbsp; I pay him $400 a week plus free room and board.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $450 per week plus free room and board.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;Then there&amp;#39;s the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here.&amp;nbsp;He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.&amp;nbsp; He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.&amp;#39;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;#39;That&amp;#39;s the guy I want to talk to --- the half-wit,&amp;#39; says the Agent.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;That would be me,&amp;#39; replied the farmer.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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