Can I Have That in a Plain Brown Wrapper, Please?

It has been several months since I loosed myself from the choke hold of investment mania, several months since I've had a conversation like this one:

Wife: We need to buy Pampers.

Me: That's a good move--doubling-up on Procter & Gamble isn't a momentum play, but it's long-term growth, a hedge against our exposure in the volatile high-tech area.

Wife: What?

Me: Procter & Gamble. The Cincinnati-based consumer-products giant. Maker of Pampers, Ivory Snow, Tide-- .

Wife: We need Pampers. Actual Pampers.
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