Olin Lathrop wrote:

> This is second only to "Our guy Vinny is 80% done and can't quite seem to
> finish, so we just want you to do the last 20%, and of course we expect
> to only pay 20% of what Vinny originally quoted us.".  

This is usually a case of the miraculous multiplication of percents. The
"20% of what Vinny originally quoted us" for the remainder quite often turn
out to be 200% of what Vinny originally quoted :)

Gerhard

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