Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 20:09:49

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Kath wrote:
>
> "Jim Larson"  wrote
>| 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.)
>|
>| -- 
>
> Eh?
> Godwinated?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
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