Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 22:23:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Ken McElhaney wrote:
> Steve Brooks wrote:
>> Chaya 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!
>>>
>>>
>>> Ya think?
>>
>> Not any more.  Now I've had time to think about it I can see htat
>> it's absolutely 100% true.  Leaking the story via the onion is a
>> cunning ploy to put all those communist media ( e.g. Fox ) hacks off
>> the scent.
>
> Funny, I thought "fascist media" would be the term used against Fox.
> Perhaps it's all the same?

I was trying to make a funny there Ken.

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