"Default User" > wrote in message
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>
>> But maybe Mario feels that it's too close to
>> being free for THEM. Those re-runs IMO are priceless, Maybe that's
>> what they want, too much for too little.
>
> I'm not sure what is "free" for FN. They pay Mario to be on Iron Chef.
> They've paid for repeated showing of Molto Mario.
> >
> Brian
>


Maybe my sentence would be more comprehensible if there were hyphens.

" ... too-close-to-being-free for THEM." (Too few bucks/next-to-nothing in
his mind.)

Also if fn have paid for repeated showing(s) of Molto Mario as you say,
perhaps now that the contract is up, he thinks he (his re-runs) is/are worth
more than they were previously.

Dee Dee
Negotiator for the fat one.