From: VAXman- on
In article <Simon52-C2FD60.22362706042010(a)news.newsgroupdirect.com>, 666 From South <Simon52(a)canada.com> writes:
>
>Have you ever read the book "Blood Diamonds"? Never mind the movie,
>read the book. The biggest scam in the world is the pricing of
>diamonds. And most women, starting out, would rather their guy spent
>that money on something that would be of more value to the nest than
>some over-priced rock.
>
>However, after the couple gets established, and their need for
>fripperies like, oh, food and shelter have been met, there is nothing
>more impressive in the same woman's eyes than a rock for a birthday or
>for Christmas...

My wife wanted her own Mac! ;) She found surfing the web was way too
difficult on a piece of carbon and desired a piece of silicon instead.

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From: Fred Moore on
In article <821aslFlecU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> Kurt Ullman wrote:
> > In article <4bba7562$0$14772$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
> > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Once you die, you cannot do any more actions to change your legacy so it
> >> stays that way for eternity.
> >
> > I doubt it. History is always subject to being rewritten or at least
> > reinterpreted. Some may be forever, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc., but many will
> > be rehabed later on.
>
> In the Soviet days there were a series of "Radio Armenia" jokes. In
> this genre a listener writes in with a question that is answered on the air.
>
> Q: Dear Radio Armenia, is it true that through the blessings of
> scientific socialism the future course of history is known?
>
> A: Dear listener. Yes it is. Our science has established the future
> history absolutely. It is past history that keeps changing.

'I am not a maverick. I have never been a maverick. I don't even know
what a maverick looks like.'
--Richard M. McCain
From: Fred Moore on
In article <4bbbab53$0$15474$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <eNMun.1062$Z6.631(a)edtnps82>, me(a)home.spamsucks.ca (Király)
> wrote:
>
> > Those of you men who marry women who expect diamonds get what you
> > deserve!
>
> I dunno. My oul' Woman's pretty tough and rough and ready (imagine if
> you will, living with _me_ for twenty-five years) and we give each other
> useful and nice down-to-earth presents, but y'know, whenever I give her
> girly stuff like perfume or a pretty watch, she gets all girly gigglish
> and I get ... you know.

I looked at nightgowns for my wife,
Those black ones trimmed in red;
But I don't know her size and so,
She'll get a carpet sweeper instead!
--Yogi Yorgesson, I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas
From: Mike Rosenberg on
Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:

> 'I am not a maverick. I have never been a maverick. I don't even know
> what a maverick looks like.'
> --Richard M. McCain

_RIchard_ McCain?

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From: Nick Naym on
In article 1jglaqa.hox59oj0vz0sN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com, Mike
Rosenberg at mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com wrote on 4/7/10 5:47 PM:

> Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:
>
>> 'I am not a maverick. I have never been a maverick. I don't even know
>> what a maverick looks like.'
>> --Richard M. McCain
>
> _RIchard_ McCain?


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