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Over the years I have lived in many different places, and once I was not far from a monastery run by Benedictine monks. Talk about businessmen in cassocks. They had a huge estate where they raised Guernsey cows, planted thousands of trees and generally lived off the land, using the produce to run a little tea shop for their curious visitors. All very pretty and rural, but the most interesting and lucrative part of their operation was a pottery.
There were full-blown electric kilns the size of a small house, several workshops with professional monks throwing plates and vases and all sorts on the latest generation potters' wheels, and a huge showroom that wouldn't have looked out of place on 5th Avenue or Knightsbridge. They exported their wares world-wide and made a fortune for god.
I remember once looking around their "Seconds Store" and got a good gauge for their commitment to quality and profits. Imagine a rack about 15 feet long 2 feet deep stacked to bursting with highly glazed perfectly formed salt and pepper pots - with no holes in them. Good one, guys. That's like selling single shoes, or jerseys with the necks sewn up, or a plane with no landing gear. I don't know how many they sold, but I am sure some enterprising person came up with a use for them. An item in a joke sure, most likely.
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