Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 00:43:23

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Steve Brooks wrote:

> 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.
> 

(It has also Godwinated this thread.)

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Jim

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