Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 20:18:26

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:
> Steve Brooks wrote:
>
>> Nick wrote:
>>
>>> HOUSTON-On Tuesday, Halliburton received a $110 million no-bid
>>> government contract to pry the gold fillings from the mouths of
>>> deceased disaster victims in the New Orleans-Gulf Coast area. "We
>>> are proud to serve the government in this time of crisis by
>>> recovering valuable resources from the wreckage of this deadly
>>> storm," said David J. Lesar, Halliburton's president. "The gold we
>>> recover from the human rubble of Katrina can be used to make
>>> fighter-jet electronics, supercomputer chips, inflation-proof
>>> A-grade investments, and luxury yachting watches."
>>
>> Hmm. I could believe the basic story - if I heard it from a reliable
>> source; which is no criticism of you Nick,  I don't know where you
>> got it from. But I don't believe the president of Halliburton would
>> ever be silly enough to use the phrase "human rubble" in public.
>>
>> So I vote.. Hoax!
>>
>
> It is from the Onion.

Thank goodness I spotted it was nonsense. I should read The Onion more 
often. But it's blocked at work and somehow I never get round to it in the 
evening.

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SB

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