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ThurgreedMarshall
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Query
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ltlfb wrote:
How many scrotums (scrota?) would it take to make a handbag big enough to fit the wallet, the sunglasses, and the cell phone?
Judging from her last story, it takes more of GWNC's ex's balls than it would normally.
ltlfb wrote:
OH FOR CHRISSAKES knock it off, or email her or something.
Did my favorite crackho get jacked for her rocks again (and no, I'm not talkin' about Wonk's momma)? It ain't all I posted, babe. And enough people get the joke that sending an email is pointless.
TM
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TexLex
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Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Location: Houston
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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MangoLassi wrote:
May I gently suggest to you that logos are pitiful, repugnant and morally wrong telegraphs of fashion insecurity.
Interesting - I never saw it quite that way, however, I refuse to wear any sort of logo because if I'm going to be someone's billboard, they're going to have to pay me for the goddamned advertising space.
And to all those people wearing out at the mall parading around in a Hilfiger Tee or (god forbid) an Old Navy Tee - It's just a T-Shirt, you fool! You are not special - you are not some sort of fashion maven! It's free advertising and YOU paid THEM for it, you idiot!
-T(hopping down off soapbox now)L
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ltlfb
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 49
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Query
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ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
Did my favorite crackho get jacked for her rocks again (and no, I'm not talkin' about Wonk's momma)? It ain't all I posted, babe. And enough people get the joke that sending an email is pointless.
That didn't even make sense. Maybe you should go order dinner.
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MangoLassi
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Location: Imperial Rome
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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TexLex wrote:
MangoLassi wrote:
May I gently suggest to you that logos are pitiful, repugnant and morally wrong telegraphs of fashion insecurity.
[color=brown]Interesting - I never saw it quite that way, however, I refuse to wear any sort of logo because if I'm going to be someone's billboard, they're going to have to pay me for the goddamned advertising space.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
People who wear logos advertise both (1) their willingness to be a dupe, and (2) the product -- for free.
Now if someone wanted to PAY me to parade around as a trampy, bitchy little arriviste carrying an LV logo bag and a Gucci logo shoes and wearing Chanel logo sunglasses -- and it's a role I'd charge Julia Roberts-like sums for -- I'd consider offers.
With the money I'd have all my stuff custom made.
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Tyrone_Slothrop
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Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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TexLex wrote:
And to all those people wearing out at the mall parading around in a Hilfiger Tee or (god forbid) an Old Navy Tee - It's just a T-Shirt, you fool! You are not special - you are not some sort of fashion maven! It's free advertising and YOU paid THEM for it, you idiot!
I happily wear logos, on the assumption that I would have paid even more for the quality merchandise I am sporting had I not agreed, as a part of the bargain, to offset those costs by displaying said logos. It's a win-win, baby.
T. (not) S.
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IslandGirl
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject: brand whore
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I don't agree with Mango. Until I have the money to have everything I own stitched up custom (never gona happen), I'm content to let the big houses speak for me. That and I'm WAY too lazy to worry about potentially being a billboard. If the bag I'm carrying sends the message that I care about quality leather goods then so be it.
Since when did conspicuous consumption become a bad thing? This is America dammit! The country was built on branding!
There are worse things to whore one's self for after all.
Island (workin' a corner near you) Girl
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ThurgreedMarshall
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Query
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ltlfb wrote:
ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
Did my favorite crackho get jacked for her rocks again (and no, I'm not talkin' about Wonk's momma)? It ain't all I posted, babe. And enough people get the joke that sending an email is pointless.
That didn't even make sense. Maybe you should go order dinner.
Sorry. Let me fix that for you.
I was referring to you when I implied that someone may have taken your crack, thus putting you in a bad mood. I also anticipated and defused a possible "ya momma" joke response from you by turning any such joke onto Taxwonk.
Then I informed you that the "inside" joke was not the only thing in my post. If it was, you might have had a point about not posting jokes other posters don't understand. Since there was actual substance (relatively speaking) in the post, I do not feel bad about it.
Next I let you know that it's not much of an inside joke anyway, since so many people know about it. But since it is still personal in nature, I decided to limit the facts I shared with the world (which necessarily includes you).
But good call on the dinner thing. G'night.
TM
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MangoLassi
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: brand whore
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IslandGirl wrote:
If the bag I'm carrying sends the message that I care about quality leather goods then so be it.
Good quality stuff speaks for itself, and that on casual inspection. The only product/brand I want to advertise is brand MangoLassi.
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TexLex
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Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Location: Houston
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
TexLex wrote:
And to all those people wearing out at the mall parading around in a Hilfiger Tee or (god forbid) an Old Navy Tee - It's just a T-Shirt, you fool! You are not special - you are not some sort of fashion maven! It's free advertising and YOU paid THEM for it, you idiot!
I happily wear logos, on the assumption that I would have paid even more for the quality merchandise I am sporting had I not agreed, as a part of the bargain, to offset those costs by displaying said logos. It's a win-win, baby.
T. (not) S.
Admit it - You're wearing a "Tommy" shirt at this very moment, aren't you?
I wear my BBBS, UH, and Blood Donor T-shirts frequently on weekends because they are among the few logos worthy of being displayed across my bosom.
-TL
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TexLex
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Location: Houston
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject: Re: brand whore
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IslandGirl wrote:
Since when did conspicuous consumption become a bad thing? This is America dammit! The country was built on branding!
We've only been here since '75 so it never really caught on in my household. I should add that I didn't go to a McDonalds until I was in high school (and BK until law school), if that makes you feel better.
-T(The sheltered)L
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Mister_Ruysbroeck
Piss me off and your code is gone!
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
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Location: The Midwest...
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:
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I don't think this CTD is the same CTD as the one from infirmation.
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Pretty_Little_Flower
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Posts: 31
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: Someday I will make sweet love to JustForFun's body.
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Mister_Ruysbroeck wrote:
I don't think this CTD is the same CTD as the one from infirmation.
What is wrong with that? I am a different Pretty Little Flower than the one from the Infirmation web site. A better one. Smarter. Faster. A body that would make JustForFun feel insecure and inadequate.
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Replaced_Texan
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Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 67
Location: Deep in the heart
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject:
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Ben wa balls.
When did you realize they were sex toys and not ancient chinese arthritis exercise tools?
(I was walking through the French, er Freedom, Market in New Orleans a while back, with two friends, and one of them was scandalized when we pointed out that ben wa balls and probably the hitachi magic wand were the only sex toys sold out on the street like that. We figured by 34 she had no excuse for not knowing what they were.)
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Tyrone_Slothrop
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Posts: 244
Location: Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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TexLex wrote:
Admit it - You're wearing a "Tommy" shirt at this very moment, aren't you?
I wear my BBBS, UH, and Blood Donor T-shirts frequently on weekends because they are among the few logos worthy of being displayed across my bosom.
Uncanny -- it's like you have a webcam in my office!
Do you separate your attire into that which is bosom-worthy and not-bosom-worthy?
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kafka_esquire
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Location: The Castle
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject:
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Okay. Perhaps I am dense. Or I at least forget this area of the law, but why was the FBI involved with this? The person who took the item did so during a war.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/19/bil...hts/index.html
Does that mean that all items stolen during war have to be given back to the rightful owners or their heirs? Couldn't that start a string of litigation?
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Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject: Hmmmmm
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Hmmmmm. Check out the main page for the site referenced in Kafka's new signature:
http://www.fizzybrain.com/
That image looks somehow familiar....
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Atticus_Grinch
Geeky Comic Dude
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:
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kafka_esquire wrote:
why was the FBI involved with this?
If you're asking from a jurisdictional standpoint, it was probably a violation of the predecessor of 18 U.S.C. § 2314 -- transporting stolen goods across state lines. Hence, FBI.
kafka_esquire wrote:
The person who took the item did so during a war. * * * Does that mean that all items stolen during war have to be given back to the rightful owners or their heirs? Couldn't that start a string of litigation?
Well, it's kinda a unique situation where one nation's laws are being used to vindicate the property rights of both the looter and the lootee. So the Civil War is a thornier issue than most. But generally, yeah, the law of war does frown upon the wholesale expropriation of private property by uniformed regulars. Only the civilized nations observe this, but I think it was and is a military crime forcibly to take souvenirs from civilians.
As for the string of litigation, I took an advanced property class in LS in which we argued over whether Union projectiles found throughout the South could be said to be federal property, or subject to the law of abandonment. The debate went longer than it should, because some people take this shit seriously. So yes, but usually it's only worthwhile if it's a Nazi-looted Picasso.
http://www.lootedart.com/
A(Nazis . . . Doh! I lose)G
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kafka_esquire
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject:
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Re: "If you're asking from a jurisdictional standpoint, it was probably a violation of the predecessor of 18 U.S.C. § 2314 -- transporting stolen goods across state lines. Hence, FBI."
Thanks. Of course, now I'm curious whether a statute of limitations could have run. . .
As to the second part, I was more or less being a smart-ass (I deleted that part of tmy post that addressed when we were going to return (or compensate for) the land we stole from the Indians) but you raised an interesting point. Thanks for the info. Seriously.
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Atticus_Grinch
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:
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kafka_esquire wrote:
As to the second part, I was more or less being a smart-ass
I think Plated (RIP) anointed me the king of earnest, striving responses to his jests.
A(the once and future king)G
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: brand whore
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MangoLassi wrote:
The only product/brand I want to advertise is brand MangoLassi.
I'd gladly wear a MangoLassi logo splayed across my bosom -- when will the t-shirts be available?
Apropos of nothing, the freakishly evil-looking (yet remarkably skillful) Bobby Holik just put the Rangers up by 2. Holik, Carter, Sandy McCarthy -- God help the Senators if New York sneaks into the number 8 spot.
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject: Re: what the...?!?!?!?
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IslandGirl wrote:
LV . . . [is] kicky and fun! Kicky and fun...say it!
Island (I like liver and baby puke) Girl
My third-grade teacher had a liver & vomit purse, and I have always associated that logo with her. So rather than kicky and fun, it says suburban middle-class late-seventies grasping beeyotch who never should have gone into teaching.
It all goes back to elementary school, doesn't it?
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: My bad
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IslandGirl wrote:
Sorry for the confusion. I'll endeavor to be clearer in the future.
Island (beleaguered) Girl
Look, as long as you're kissing up, please do not use endeavor as a verb. In fact, banish it from your vocabulary altogether. "Try" is a good synonym.
R (channeling Strunk & White) P
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
I happily wear logos, on the assumption that I would have paid even more for the quality merchandise I am sporting had I not agreed, as a part of the bargain, to offset those costs by displaying said logos. It's a win-win, baby.
T. (not) S.
Quit spouting that economics shit. You didn't go to Chicago. Did you?
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:45 pm Post subject:
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Mister_Ruysbroeck wrote:
I don't think this CTD is the same CTD as the one from infirmation.
I was thinking the same thing earlier today.
R (not you) P
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject: Serial catsup
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Sorry for the flurry of consecutive posts. You're all just so interesting!
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Tyrone_Slothrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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robustpuppy wrote:
Quit spouting that economics shit. You didn't go to Chicago. Did you?
Didn't you just say it all goes back to elementary school? Here's what dinner-table conversations were like in my family:
Quote:
The Nine-Year-Old: Dad? I've been reading the Twelve-Year-Old's World War II books...
Dad: Yes?
The Nine-Year-Old: And was there really a time when if you had 200 German marks the most you could trade them for was one cent?
Dad: Yes. And worse than that. At its worst--at its worst, at the peak of the German hyperinflation, one dollar would buy you four trillion marks.
The Nine-Year-Old: Why did this happen?
Dad: Well, the government had bills to pay and wanted to spend money--to spend money on the unemployed, on public works, on payments to those who had quit their jobs in protest over the French army's moving into the Ruhr Valley. The German government didn't want to tax enough to cover all its spending. And nobody would let the German government borrow from them. So they printed money, and there was inflation.
The Nine-Year-Old: What is inflation, exactly?
Dad: When everyone thinks they have more money in their pockets and bank accounts than they need, and everyone tries to spend it at once, and so prices in terms of money rise: money becomes worth less--and, in the German case in the early 1920s, worthless.
The Nine-Year-Old: Dad?
Dad: Yes?
The Nine-Year-Old: You're not as funny as you think you are. I just think you should know that.
Dad: Thank you.
The Nine-Year-Old: So why does this book say this inflation was such a bad thing?
Dad: Well, first of all, it was unfair. How would you feel if you were a German family that had saved 5,000 marks and put it in the bank, and inflation made it so that that 5,000 marks was worth not the $1250 it had been worth before World War I, but only 125 one-billionths of a cent?
The Nine-Year-Old: Annoyed.
Dad: And the whole point of money is to make buying things convenient--all you need to carry on a shopping trip is a small purse. But in the German hyperinflation... think of people taking wheelbarrows full of money to the grocery store, and returning with a small bag of groceries because of how much inflation had eroded the value of their currency.
The Nine-Year-Old: I think I know how I would have stopped it--stopped the inflation.
Dad: What would you have done?
The Nine-Year-Old: When the mark was worth only a trillionth--I would have stopped printing marks, and printed something else that was worth a trillion times as much, and promised not to print so much of it that people would start spending too fast.
Dad: That's what they did. They created a rentenmark, worth one trillion marks. And they said that the number of rentenmarks would be controlled by an agency independent of the government, so the government couldn't tell it to print more of them.
The Nine-Year-Old: Did it work?
Dad: Yes, it worked. As Uncle Milton says, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Stop printing money, stop letting the money supply grow, and the inflation stops.
The Nine-Year-Old: How long before they did this?
Dad: Oh, the hyperinflation went on for three or four years.
The Nine-Year-Old: Why did it take them so long? I'm just a kid. If a nine-year-old kid can think up what to do, why did it take them so long?
Dad: Well, first, you probably would have made a better central banker than Hjallmar Schacht. Second... inflation allows a government to spend more or tax less than it would have to otherwise. If you cannot convince the government that the inflation is doing more harm than cutting spending or raising taxes would, you won't be able to convince the government to stop it. And it's only when you get to the wheelbarrows-full-of-money stage that the government is easy to convince. As long as the government sees inflation as the lesser evil, the least bad choice, the fact that we know how to stop it doesn't matter--because the government doesn't want to stop it.
The Nine-Year-Old: Humph.
So, pity me.
edited for clarity
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Tyrone_Slothrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: paging Penske
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BTW, someone is 31 posts short of our first K on this board . . . .
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robustpuppy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
Father to son: Well, first, you probably would have made a better central banker than Hjallmar Schacht.
So, pity me.
Pity you! If only MY father had told me I would have made a better central banker than Hjallmar Schacht, who knows where I would be today.
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kafka_esquire
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject: Yeah, but
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Look at the page views. . . Astounding!
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Tyrone_Slothrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Fashion crimes
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robustpuppy wrote:
Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
Father to son: Well, first, you probably would have made a better central banker than Hjallmar Schacht.
So, pity me.
Pity you! If only MY father had told me I would have made a better central banker than Hjallmar Schacht, who knows where I would be today.
Um, at another large law firm?
Or do you mean, also here on the Fashion Board?
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