"It ought to be 'fine'. It's costing you more than $600."
— Ping Bodie

January 1, 1970

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Manager , responding in turn to Ping's taciturn and seemingly unperturbed response to Callahan's already irate query, "How's the beer?", Bodie having just broken his vow of season-long abstinence, thus costing himself a promised $600 end-of-season bonus, over and above the ostensible five cent fee; as quoted in "Bodie Buys Beer and Loses Bonus Almost Earned," The Billings Gazette (September 6, 1913), p. 14