SmartAB™ Wisdom #35: Would You Buy A Bottle Of Beer for $80,000?

As it was reported by Chicago Tribune in 1995: “An amusing moment of the Academy Award ceremonies came when David Letterman tried to convince the world that many celebrities competed with him for his cameo role as Earl Hofert, an old salt, in last year's flop movie "The Cabin Boy."

In one of his brief scenes in the movie, Letterman held up a handmade st…