From: Warren Oates on 6 Apr 2010 17:44 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. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Mike Rosenberg on 6 Apr 2010 19:11 Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > > The Lord loves you Mike and wants to save you from your sins. This > > comment is inappropriate. > > You massively cross-posted a religious message. You got a massively > cross-posted religious discussion. But I guess that is OK for you. The > rest of us have to live with the consequences (big or trivial) of our > actions; but you magical forgiveness for yours. I guess that makes you > a better person. That whooshing sound you hear is the sarcasm going over John's head. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Nick Naym on 7 Apr 2010 00:10 In article 4bbbab53$0$15474$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com, Warren Oates at warren.oates(a)gmail.com wrote on 4/6/10 5:44 PM: > 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. ROTF! -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)
From: VAXman- on 7 Apr 2010 08:43 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. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people. -- Billy Ray Valentine
From: Fred Moore on 7 Apr 2010 11:05
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 |