From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4557710E.7E29264B(a)hotmail.com...
>
>
> "Michael A. Terrell" wrote:
>
>> Ben Ben Newsam wrote:
>> > On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> > >Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that
>> > >water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks,
>> > >baths, and showers?
>> >
>> > No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage
>> > treatment works at Tinsley.
>>
>> And ends up as bottled water in France? ;-)
>
> You have some very odd ideas.
>
> The only company I know of that made a bottled water of 'dubious origin'
> was the
> Coca-Cola company who used tap water.

Well, it all gets recycled eventually...


From: Michael A. Terrell on
Ken Smith wrote:
>
> In article <_fadnZyBlKEt2svYRVnytA(a)pipex.net>,
> T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> >
> >"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
> >news:dgrbl2tp8gllrf3vcia0uembocqs0v9aei(a)4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:33:35 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com>
> >> Gave us:
> >>
> >>> But not understanding
> >>>what he's talking about never stopped him anyway.
> >>
> >>
> >> Severe understatement.
> >
> >Wow. Yet another irony meter goes.
>
> I suggest a PTC, a MOV, a SIDAC, a Gas-tube Surge
> Protector, a fuse and a spark gap, if you are going to keep bringing your
> irony meters near this thread.
>
> You may want to add a spike snubbing inductor as well just to be safe.


He should just connect a blasting cap to it so that when it goes off,
it really goes off.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
From: Eeyore on


Ben Newsam wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:40:15 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >In article <4555F0FA.3C4FF876(a)hotmail.com>,
> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>unsettled wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am at a slight loss in the
> >>> medicine coverage if I use Canadian pricing as
> >>> the basis, but way ahead if I use USA prices.
> >>
> >>Why are the same medicines more expensive in the USA ?
> >
> >We pay the development costs.
>
> What about drugs from Roche or Clin-Midy and so on?

Or Novartis ( Ciba-Geigy + Sandoz ) or GlaxoSmithKline etc etc....

Graham


From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>How much do you pay for your dial-up connection ?
> >
> > I have two. For the newsgroup access, I used to pay $30/month.
> > I definitely got what I paid for.
> >
> > Then it got bought out and the priced was reduced; as a result,
> > I also got what I paid for :-((.
>
> $30 a month is massively expensive for USENET. I pay ?20 per month for 2MB
> broadband, unlimited downloads and unlimited newsgroup access.
>
> Still, when you are living on $12k pa, I bet the reduced price was welcome.

Tiscali will give you an unlimited 1M ADSL connection for ?12.99 per month ( my
neighbour actually gets 2M at this price ) and you can get text usenet groups
for 10 Euros p.a ( I forget which provider off the top of my head ).

Graham


From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> > John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
> >>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>That roast Iraqi baby in your oven's ready for eating.
> >>
> >>---
> >>Wow!
> >>
> >>Seems you've latched onto a subject you really like!
> >
> > John, this is another example of that odd behavior I've
> > been mentioning once in a while. Muslims teach their
> > young that that non-Muslims are baby eaters.
>
> No muslims that I have met do this.

I thought this was BAH joking !

Graham