Post #7786 by mungofitch on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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You know, I’d never, I’d heard of Occidental Petroleum.
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He'd never heard of Occidental Petroleum?

This is a transcript which often misses nuance of how people actually communicate.
There's a pretty good chance the "I'd never" was the start of a different sentence that never got completed, like "I'd never really thought about investing them", then he changed his mind and then just said that he'd heard of them, with the implied "but didn't have much more interest than that".

Unfortunately I don't have the live video handy, it's probably clearer that way. We all know he'd heard of Occidental Petroleum, so that interpretation isn't going to be the right one.

Jim

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