Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 22:10:19

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Ken McElhaney wrote:
> 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.

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