Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
Hi Brad,
Actually, I had forgotten about those VPs but I do remember the daughter of
that government official in the UK eating a hamburger on television to prove
that the beef was OK during the mad cow situation.
Does anybody recall Maggie Thatcher herself getting on TV and
eating a hamburger?
At least one real-life Brit
told me matter-of-factly that the reason for
Mad Cow disease was that Maggie cut the nunber of
meat inspectors. I call it: Mad Thatcher Disease.
And, why not quote that great New Scientist cartoon again:
Albert the laboratory rat
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The British magazine New Scientist had a cartoon
series, ca. 1980: "Albert the laboratory rat". Each week Albert had a
different adventure in the world of science. One episode began
with the Lab Director being "made redundant" (AKA "laid off",
fired...) by Margaret Thatcher, as a cost saving measure.
Next frame: Albert is appointed new Lab Director (presumably
at lower salary than the former director).
Next frame: Albert
hires back the former Lab Director as the new laboratory rat.
Final frame: Albert relaxes in his director's chair, popping
positive reinforcement cookies with one front paw, and pressing
the button on a box with his other paw to administer electric
shocks to the new lab rat. Through a one-way mirror, we and
Albert watch the former Director writhing in pain from the
shocks Albert is administering.
Maybe Reagan really has CJD and "they" are keeping it
hushed up to avoid public hysteria and embarrassing Maggie?
Wake up Maggie, I've something to say to you....
(--Rod Stewart song)
\brad mccormick
REH
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To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Epidemics
Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
There is a world plague called Shistomiasis that hasn't reached America
but
is now in the Caribbean caused by a very nasty intestinal worm that
started
in snails found in a small country south of Egypt on the Nile. The
death
comes very slowly, painfully and disgustingly since you're definitely in
the
process of being eaten.
[snip]
Another of my unpopular belikefs isw that people should stay
out of the water, except for Jacuzzis if one likes that, etc.
Being There
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Remember the Vice-President in JAWS, who had to
go into the water to prove he had no fear of being
attacked by Osama bin Laden, because his President
told him to do it so they could present a
united front to keep the tourists coming,
and, like Hubert Humphrey when
Lyndon Johnson told him to shoot an animal on his
[Johnson's] ranch, Humphrey didn't have the guts
to do what he believed was right. But, in JAWS,
maybe it wasn't so much lack of courage, as
fear of losing his job that made the Vice-President
do what he did not want to.
Bad: "the water", crowds, traveling (esp. to exotic places).
Good: Sipping La Tache from a Baccarat tastevin, Reading
Rabelais and discussing it while doing item #1 in the
company of good friends.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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