Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Kath
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 21:20:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape


"Tyler Trafford"  wrote
| 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
| -- 

Ahhh!
So it has nothing to do with the Earl of Wessex then?

Kath

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