Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 22:29:40

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Kath wrote:

> 
> "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?

It has EVERYTHING to do with the Earl of Wessex!

(Who?)

-- 
Jim

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