Re: Who said this?

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

On 5 May 2009, at 19:23, Kathy Purdy wrote:

> Several years ago, in a doctor's waiting room, I was flipping  
> through a home
> and garden magazine and came across this quote: "Gardening (or was it
> farming?) is the only socially acceptable form of gambling." Can  
> anyone give
> me the exact quote and who said it?
>

Farming is the one I remember from way back when. I've noticed over my  
lifetime inflation taking hold on my favourite farming unattributed  
quote - that the definition of farming is "standing under a cold  
shower tearing up - and then inflation takes hold - I can remember  
when it was pound notes, now it is fifty pound notes.

kathryn
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