From: Warren Oates on
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.
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From: Mike Rosenberg on
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.

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From: Nick Naym on
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!

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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.

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