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From: Michael A. Terrell on 14 Aug 2007 15:47 Jim Thompson wrote: > > This will get the leftists weenies all in a twist and screw up their > image of me... Screw'em. > The ONLY charity that I give money to is the St. Mary's Food Bank > Alliance... food and shelter for the homeless, and a Catholic > organization to boot ;-) SO? You give it to a group that doesn't have a high overhead, and squeezes every penny. I KNEW that there was some reason why I liked you. ;-) -- 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: Michael A. Terrell on 14 Aug 2007 15:49 Joel Kolstad wrote: > > "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message > news:9an3c3tr9ehtofhr9jfn3l0da77dh1o25p(a)4ax.com... > > When I was a kid in New Orleans, we had to eat shrimp because meat was > > too expensive. > > Hmm... and here I would have thought that shrimp would actually be more > expensive than, e.g., chicken. > > Not that I'm going to switch to be a vegetarian any time soon, but raising > chickens does make it quite obvious just how much more energy it takes to put > meat on the table rather than vegetables! > > Compared to, e.g., 50 years ago, I suspect that food is now a much lower > percentage of peoples' incomes, whereas housing is *much* higher. Cars are > also higher, whereas stuff like TVs and stereos is much less. 20 years ago you could find a decent used car for $50. Now, junkers are over $1000. -- 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: Jim Thompson on 14 Aug 2007 17:08 On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:59:56 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: [snip] > >When I was a kid in New Orleans, we had to eat shrimp because meat was >too expensive. > >John Lobster was originally only fed to prisoners ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave
From: Bob Myers on 14 Aug 2007 17:37 "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:46C2074F.FF2CC738(a)earthlink.net... > 20 years ago you could find a decent used car for $50. Now, junkers > are over $1000. TWENTY years ago? Mike, are you suffering from the same problem I have - that what you're thinking of as "just 20 years ago" is more like 30 or 40? I can't imagine what sort of "decent used car" you would've found for fifty bucks in 1987, which, believe it er don't, IS now a full twenty years ago! Bob M.
From: John Larkin on 14 Aug 2007 17:50
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:49:35 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Joel Kolstad wrote: >> >> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message >> news:9an3c3tr9ehtofhr9jfn3l0da77dh1o25p(a)4ax.com... >> > When I was a kid in New Orleans, we had to eat shrimp because meat was >> > too expensive. >> >> Hmm... and here I would have thought that shrimp would actually be more >> expensive than, e.g., chicken. >> >> Not that I'm going to switch to be a vegetarian any time soon, but raising >> chickens does make it quite obvious just how much more energy it takes to put >> meat on the table rather than vegetables! >> >> Compared to, e.g., 50 years ago, I suspect that food is now a much lower >> percentage of peoples' incomes, whereas housing is *much* higher. Cars are >> also higher, whereas stuff like TVs and stereos is much less. > > > 20 years ago you could find a decent used car for $50. Now, junkers >are over $1000. Anything that's less than 20 years old, and sctually runs, has an engine control unit, a catalytic converter, a bunch of sensors, and likely air bags that are worth $1000 in scrap value. Besides, a year's insurance will cost a lot more. John |