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Seinfeld
The Postponement
Elaine is consulting a rabbi, who offers her Snackwell's Cookies. He says he fears that knowing they're fat free may cause people to overindulge. Making them fat-free lowers the price of eating them; consumers respond by eating more.
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I
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really appreciate your taking time to talk with me Rabbi
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you know I'm not of your faith
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in fact I'm not a very religious person but
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I do feel as if I'm in need of some guidance here
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would you care for a snack of some kind
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I have the snack Wells which are very popular
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although I think sometimes with the so-called fat-free cookies people may overindulge
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forgetting that they may be high in calories
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he's
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thank you I'm not very hungry
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anyway
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this friend of mine
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George got engaged
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now wonderful yeah well
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for some reason
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well I find myself just overcome with feelings of jealousy and resentment
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doesn't it give you any joy to see your friend
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enter into this holiest of unions no no no it doesn't
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no joy no joy whatsoever just the whole thing makes me
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sick
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you know
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Elaine
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very often we cannot see the forest for the trees I don't know what that means
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well
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for example
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say there's a far as the thing is we have on
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it should have been me
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you know I'm smart I'm
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I'm attractive
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you know my temple has many single function oh no that's okay
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my nephew Alex is someone who's also looking perhaps
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he owns a flower store
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very successful
