To roast Mars and Hersheys' nuts

and that was the headline i used when writing my story today on Olam International, which bought over US-based Universal Blanchers for US$77 mln. =P
there are days when your colleagues seem to zone out and act with diminished intelligence.
today was one of those days.
incident 1:
i was done writing a story on how Ezra Holdings (shipping company) had a subsidiary listing on the Oslo bourse.
fifteen minutes later, colleague A asks out loud "where is Oslo?"
me: Oslo is in Norway.
A: what kind of name is that to call a stock...
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