Hiccup

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Things were going along swimmingly for your shark repellant business. Unfortunately, one day, Megaladon swam by and, well...was simply not repelled. There was only one event where Megaladon came into play as a force...amazingly, Discovery Channel caught it all on camera...sorta.

So your business had a hiccup. Sales were bad one quarter. And then calm returned to the ocean waters, and friendly Great White paranoia came back on your side, and you sold more shark repellant...which was really just loudspeakers attached to the undercarriage of a surfboard playing the Barney song, "I love you, you love me..."

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