Re: Firefighters at the site of WTC7 "Move away the building is going to blow up, get back the building is going to blow up."
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MooseFET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On May 4, 8:19 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> MooseFET wrote: >> > On May 4, 12:32 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [] >> >> >>The Marxist contribution to western thought is that it put everything in >> >>terms of labor and thus allowed us to quantify the human component of >> >>economies. >> >> > No the great insight by Marx was in the selling of ducks. "Anybody >> > want to buy a duct" has done more to advance economic thinking than >> > the works of most economists. >> >> > Economists have a vested interest in preventing people from >> > understanding economics. They are well paid and know that they >> > wouldn't be for long if people really understood what was going on. >> >> You must be an economist because you provide absolutely no >> interpretation of what the hell you were saying in ghe first paragraph >> (as if you actually know what you were trying to say). Duct or duck, >> first of all. Second of all--make a point. > >Groucho Marx. Give that man a cigar. /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Internet Survey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Elan Magavi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hello all, >> >> I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale >> platform for Internet services. We are very interested to know your >> thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be improved, and to >> that end we have set up a short survey at our website - >> http://www.octabox.com/productivity_poll.php >> We would very much appreciate if you would take a couple of minutes to >> fill it up and influence our direction and empahsis. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Octabox Development Team > >Is that like.. OctaPussy? I didn't read their stuff. Are they really trying to put a round peg in a square hole? /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Internet Survey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, zoara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 9 Jan 2007 06:58:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale >> platform for Internet services. We are very interested to know your >> thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be improved, and to >> that end we have set up a short survey at our website - >> http://www.octabox.com/productivity_poll.php >> We would very much appreciate if you would take a couple of minutes to >> fill it up and influence our direction and empahsis. > >Well, that was too tempting to pass up. Amusing answers related to dirty >bastard time-wasting spammers duly entered and submitted. My hope is that one of these groups of kids will learn from the nose-wiping service a.f.c. gives them and we get a query back full of curiosity. It is ironic that these ads ask for expert help and then get rude when it's given. /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Internet Survey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lefty Bigfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:28:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >(in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>"Elan Magavi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is that like.. OctaPussy? >> >> I didn't read their stuff. Are they really trying to put a >> round peg in a square hole? > >Sounds more like an octagonal pole in a round hole. Nah, I figured they picked the word octal because it's never been used before. /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Internet Survey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, krw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] says... >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>Lefty Bigfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:28:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >> >(in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): >> > >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >>"Elan Magavi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is that like.. OctaPussy? >> >> >> >> I didn't read their stuff. Are they really trying to put a >> >> round peg in a square hole? >> > >> >Sounds more like an octagonal pole in a round hole. >> >> Nah, I figured they picked the word octal because it's never >> been used before. > >and "HexaPussy" just wouldn't be right. > Right. The PC types would put them in jail for being cruel to animals. /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Internet Survey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On 10-Jan-2007, krw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ...and "HexaPussy" just wouldn't be right. > > >SexagesimalPussy (base 60) has kind of a nice ring to it. That would cause kiddies to look up the word. But 360 would have the correct ring. /BAH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
