It gets better.
Once Mad Cow was publicized, the British supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, chopped 50% off their beef prices. The shelves emptied while you blinked.
Harry
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Ray 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.REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > ----------- > > 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
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