# When you were a child, was it your dream to grow up, own an egg company and someday rip off all of your consumers? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529 "2023-11-22T13:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/61 "2023-11-25T20:10:53Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Keep your sunny side up! That link! It’s Scrambled! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/62 "2023-11-25T20:35:00Z")
These are so good we need a standing ova-tion. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/63 "2023-11-25T22:40:35Z")
Ok, puns are over! Easy, right? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/64 "2023-11-25T22:55:34Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Ok, puns are over! Easy, right? - No, puns will continue. This will be Custard’s last stand. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/65 "2023-11-25T23:03:56Z")
Y’all better quit this punnery or I’ll use this clue-by-4 to nog some sense into somebody!! Folks just keep egging me on and egging me on and soon I’ma gonna crack! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/66 "2023-11-25T23:08:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Y’all better quit this punnery or I’ll use this clue-by-4 to nog some sense into somebody!! Folks just keep egging me on and egging me on and soon I’ma gonna crack! - Call an eggsterminator. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/67 "2023-11-25T23:20:07Z")
[Need to start reading these with Vincent Price as narrator](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f04ULfzkMhY&pp=ygUVdmluY2VudCBwcmljZSBlZ2doZWFk) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/68 "2023-11-25T23:24:34Z")
The worst is that some of the puns are hidden. So you have to go hunting for them, like those bits that people sneak into movies and other art forms that you wouldn’t notice unless you were looking for them. > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > What I like with things like this is picturing the process by which it happened. The meeting where someone suggested, “You know one way to raise egg prices would be…” And then being showered with praise. Eh, “let’s collude with all the other companies producing the same product as us so we can all raise our prices together and increase our profits” is hardly a new or original idea. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/69 "2023-11-26T00:04:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > No, puns will continue. Okay, but which came first? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/70 "2023-11-26T00:07:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > No, puns will continue. > > Okay, but which came first? - [![](https://i.imgflip.com/2khdl5.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/2khdl5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/71 "2023-11-26T00:45:18Z")
Reminds me of the the old Ron White skit where’s he’s comparing sex with his wife to rodeo and their debate about whether he’d taken the … full … eight … seconds. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/72 "2023-11-26T01:00:24Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I thought it was Biden’s fault? > [https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1727155755516629246/photo/1](https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1727155755516629246/photo/1) Just to be clear, the recently-decided lawsuit referenced here was filed in 2011, and it was concerning wrongdoing from the years 2004-2008. [(cite)](https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-8cd455003a3a40bab74d0f046d0f2c9d) Maybe there was price-fixing during the Biden administration, it would not surprise me at all, but this news item is not evidence of it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/73 "2023-11-26T01:28:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Reminds me of the the old Ron White skit where’s he’s comparing sex with his wife to rodeo and their debate about whether he’d taken the … full … eight … seconds. So they brought a timer into the bedroom and he taught her the meaning of the phrase “most of the time.” ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/74 "2023-11-26T02:04:01Z")
I recall an earlier version, with a chicken and an egg lying in bed, one with a cigarette and a smug smile and the other annoyed and saying, “well, I guess that settles that question.” There are other versions out there, too. On the theme of cartoons that repeat a joke, I found 4 or 5 variations of “poor Professor Bloggs: published and published, but perished anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/75 "2023-11-26T02:24:44Z")
Wasn’t there a line from an Uncle Cecil column about how the chicken had to get laid before the egg could? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/76 "2023-11-26T02:56:54Z")
_She’s got eggs, she knows how to use them_ _She never begs, she knows how to choose them_ _She’s holdin’ egg, wonder how to feed them_ _Would you get behind them if only you could find them_ _Oh I want 'em, said I got to have 'em_ _Little bird is alright_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/77 "2023-11-26T07:06:42Z")
The pink panties on the floor really make this cartoon! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/78 "2023-11-27T04:51:52Z")
Not to veer off weirdly, but that wouldn’t bother me, were I the chicken. My goal is to have the egg come, then I have succeeded at my goal. Admittedly, that was a weird veer. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/79 "2023-11-27T07:07:53Z")
The peasants are reaching for their pitchforks over an anti-trust case. Makes a Doper proud. Lose an anti-trust case and it will cost you [triple damages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages), and damages are _not_ based on [dead-weight loss](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadweightloss.asp) - it’s a much larger base. Cartels? Collusion? I’m shocked! Adam Smith: > People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Luckily we passed the right sort of laws in the early 1900s and the practice disappeared ha! > **[Price fixing cases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing_cases)** > > This is a partial list of notable price fixing and bid rigging cases. > The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken several airlines to the Federal Court of Australia seeking penalties for alleged price fixing contraventions. As of 2011, the ACCC's activities are: > The ACCC instituted proceedings against Qantas seeking penalties for alleged price fixing contraventions relating to fuel surcharges applied to international carriage of air cargo between 2002 and early 2006. The... 1978 soft-on-crime executive: > “Price agreements between competitors was a way of life. Our ethics were not out of line with what was being done in this company and, in fact, in this industry for a long time. I’ve been in this industry for 32 years, and this situation was not just a passing incident. That’s just the way I was brought up in the business, right or wrong.” Narrator: “Price fixing is wrong.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/80 "2023-11-27T17:26:17Z")
[Company that makes rent-setting software for landlords sued for collusion](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-makes-rent-setting-software-for-landlords-sued-for-collusion/?comments=1&comments-page=1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529.md?page=5)