Bring me the stool of Ernie the bulldog

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Bring me the stool of Ernie the bulldog

I’m not religious but I am superstitious. That’s a ludicrous and indefensible position to adopt, but there you have it. After a business drought of sub-Saharan dimensions lately, I had an immense reversal of fortune this week — and I owe it all to Ernie’s stools.

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