Post #17,353
11/8/01 1:54:03 PM
11/8/01 2:00:21 PM
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NYT - Microsoft to acquire IWETHEY
Associated Press - In a startling announcement today, Microsoft announced that they agreed to purchase IWETHEY, a noted group of pundits and visionaries, for the amount of $5, after a secret deal was pushed through by the owner of the trademark, one Thane Walkup.
"I believe that these two groups are a natural complement for each other" said Mr. Walkup. "Microsoft's innovation has declined a bit in recent years, and I felt that some fresh blood was needed. IWETHEY is the perfect group to get them turned around."
Most of the staff of IWETHEY would not agree to be interviewed, but a Mr. Conrad was willing to say, "That fucking pig abortion! I fucking knew we shouldn't have trusted that shit-eating pus-leaking zit on a camel's penis!"
MSFT is up 23 points on the news.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #17,355
11/8/01 2:02:14 PM
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LOL
*choke*
must... refill... coffee... and... change... shirt...
:)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #17,368
11/8/01 3:07:39 PM
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CHOKE!! LOL
With a statement like that...I nominate CRC as official spokesman for IWETHEY! :-)
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Post #17,380
11/8/01 4:00:02 PM
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Seconded
I also move that our official motto be:
"What the FUCKING FUCK?!?!?!?!"
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #17,364
11/8/01 2:40:22 PM
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I expect some royalties on the name ;)
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."
Jacques Servan, 1767
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Post #17,410
11/8/01 7:25:57 PM
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+5, Cleverness.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #17,425
11/8/01 10:12:13 PM
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Spewing over here....
it's been a *really* crappy day -- thanks for making me laugh!!! :)
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Post #17,430
11/8/01 10:53:37 PM
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:[
Hi Mags,
Sorry to hear.. it's looking as if lots o' those bizness typhoons are retrenching, gettin rid of those liabilities: people er employees - and maybe installing bigger iron gates at the estate.
(I guess it's just their way of displaying that er confidence thing - which they exhort the rest of us to display by buying even more stuff. No, it's not supposed to make sense)
Hope you're onto something lateral.. down there.
Hmm: maybe - go around to local places pondering biting that New M$ Licensing cyanide bullet: with a working setup on laptop, doin the basic things for free? (Bring copy of the New Licensing Rules + a 16x20 poster of Billy smarling.)
(Nahh not the big macho Corps - small-medium? local folk)
Just a thought.
Remember when that fortune-teller escaped the Monterey jail?
And the headline was -
Small Medium at Large !
Cheers,
Ashton
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Post #17,572
11/9/01 4:54:32 PM
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Don't let it bring ya' down....
Ash, liked the 'small medium at large'.....slugbug jr laughed at that.
I'm tryin' to keep it positive and upbeat....just been a rough week.
And, I'm sick to death of the 'programming of the American people'.
However, a long walk on the beach offsets all this rather nicely....
Tuning out, dropping in..
-Slug
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Post #17,574
11/9/01 4:58:34 PM
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BTW don't lose contact
Hope you and Jr wind up doing well.
Hope she is adjusting well to college.
Hope that (some day) you two will come out here or vice versa...
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #17,586
11/9/01 5:23:20 PM
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No way...
Not meaning to lose contact....have just been offline a bit more
these days. I'm working toward self-employment by the end of
the year so lots to do. The 'day job' rather sucks right now, too.
As for Jr., she is doing great at college and she's in 'heavy like' too :)
I'll try to get back there to visit, but it likely won't be before spring.
Same goes for y'all.....feel free to come this way anytime. It's foggy
round here, but at least we ain't got no stinkin' snow...heh!
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Post #17,648
11/10/01 12:32:53 AM
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It's only castles burnin'
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Post #17,649
11/10/01 12:33:55 AM
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Just find someone who's turnin'
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Post #17,650
11/10/01 12:34:37 AM
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And you will come around... :)
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Post #17,653
11/10/01 12:43:25 AM
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eggactly! :)
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Post #17,485
11/9/01 11:33:39 AM
11/9/01 11:34:00 AM
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Glad to be of service... :-)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #17,471
11/9/01 10:23:11 AM
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**guffaw**
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
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Post #17,545
11/9/01 3:37:49 PM
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You do realize that
the print version would read:
"That [censored] pig [censored]! I [censored] knew we shouldn't have trusted that [censored]-eating [censored]-leaking zit on a camel's [censored]!"
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Post #17,546
11/9/01 3:41:08 PM
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Don't tell me that you've been reading...
[link|http://www.tessier.com/ThePlan/PlainText/censored.txt|this] lately...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #17,810
11/11/01 10:08:18 PM
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What the h*ll was that?
They are not very consistent:
"<mow> please! say ure kidding
<Wasim> [censored] bill clinton
<mow> yeh fucking bill clinton"
The censorer is an airline baggage inspector
no doubt.
Hey, a CRC chatbot! I'd pay up
to $8 for such, maybe even $9.
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Post #17,820
11/12/01 12:58:37 AM
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You missed the point, boyo.
Nobody was actually censored - they were playing with Mow's mind. Mow's stuff wasn't censored because everybody was typing in their own [censored] crap.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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