Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ken McElhaney
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 13:43:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape


Steve Brooks wrote:
> 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.

So was I.

Ken

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