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For as old as he is and as little as he costs, if I were the city council I might be inclined to just keep paying him until he died. Beats getting turned into a

• belval 5y ago
  That's my take as well, the guy is 88 years old, just keep paying him, for 16k$ he's a nice tourist attraction.
  • X6S1x6Okd1st 5y ago
    Depends on whether he is spending his time yelling about how men need to take over the world.
    • xyzzy123 5y ago
      He's basically a professor with (>>>) 20 years of professional speaking and comedy experience (regular professors mostly just speak with people who have paid to agree with them). I can pretty much guarantee you that if the wizard decided men should take over the world (HA, good luck) you would have a surprising amount of fun debating that position with him. You would do well to understand that he's pretty subversive and might never know if he's actually on the side he says he's on or not (possibly asking really nicely would do it). A lot of people who talk to the "wizard" are a lot stupider than the wizard. I cannot believe those idiots at the city council do not understand the value of what they have. Even if the guy starts to lose his marbles he'll still be able to provide directions for Americans and maybe if it gets really bad he could be given aspirin or assisted suicide pills (properly labelled, obviously) to hand out to the Dutch.
• q1w2 5y ago
  Having spent time in city council budget meetings, I can tell you that animosity over seemingly tiny expenditures can be unreal, and not at all worth the fight.