Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 22:57:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Steve Brooks wrote:

> 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.
> 
><Blushes>
> 

That blush really brings out your girlish charms.

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Jim

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