Re: Not Buying It
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the same in English). And WWW sounds terribly like WWIII... I hope I don't preach the same solution to 29, meaning a WW? (OTOH, it might not be so bad... Billions dead in the first minutes, and let the survivors think how to manage the remains of the scorched Earth). CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps WWW? Dunno. Did Jon mean WPA? That would be Works Progress Administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration The umbrella label for the whole thing was the New Deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_deal if you want to read more about various alphabet soup programs Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Not Buying It
Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the same in English). And WWW sounds terribly like WWIII... I hope I don't preach the same solution to 29, meaning a WW? (OTOH, it might not be so bad... Billions dead in the first minutes, and let the survivors think how to manage the remains of the scorched Earth). Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Not Buying It
2008/9/25 Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the same in English). And WWW sounds terribly like WWIII... I hope I don't preach the same solution to 29, meaning a WW? (OTOH, it might not be so bad... Billions dead in the first minutes, and let the survivors think how to manage the remains of the scorched Earth). CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps WWW? Dunno. Did Jon mean WPA? That would be Works Progress Administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration The umbrella label for the whole thing was the New Deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_deal if you want to read more about various alphabet soup programs Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l Maybe he meant IWW, International Workers of the World aka Wobblies. OTOH, maybe he meant Wicked Witch of the West or Weasley's Wizard Wheezes john ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Not Buying It
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: Thank you for correcting me again, Julia. It's been many years since I taught Social Studies and I plead early Alzeimer's!~) Jon You're welcome, although my primary intent was not to correct an error, but to provide information to answer a question, which is one of those functions that I take great delight in. :) So, I had fun, and I'm glad it was helpful all around. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
