They didn't hire him for his mathematical ability

[vass]

“From the time I started,” he says quietly, “nine-tenths of that office deserved what they had. And me? I was the one percent.”

(I'm tagging this as punctuation dysfunction on the grounds that it's a decimal point error.)

Comments

[cimorene]

WOW.

[fred_mouse]

I think I like your tag even more than the dysfunction.

[megaptera]

Awesome. I thought originally that it was going to be a mixed metaphor thing, like inadvertently following up a comment about nine-tenths of the office with... I dunno, being the richest guy in the room and being the 1% as opposed to the 99%? But that's not what it's about, is it?

Also: “You’re mixing your measurements,” he notes softly. Tony quirks an eyebrow. “You went from a fraction to a percent.”

Nice, um, half-catch there, Bruce.