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."

2007-05-05 Thread jmfbahciv
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

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Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-10 Thread jmfbahciv
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
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Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-10 Thread jmfbahciv
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
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Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-10 Thread jmfbahciv
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
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Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-11 Thread jmfbahciv
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.

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Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-11 Thread jmfbahciv
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
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