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Har. Har.

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Topic <no@no.com> wrote:
>So, what's the truth behind all these accounts of looters breaking into
>camera stores and tossing Olympus E300's contemptuously aside as they search
>for something worth stealing?

Or breaking into the camera stores in order to leave behind Sigma dSLRs.

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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net

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Guy,
In all seriousness (heehee) it does seem that the US and UK sense of
humor is a bit different. Nothing wrong with it, just different.
Paul


Claim Guy wrote:
> "Gormless" <simeon@gormless.com> wrote in message
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>>No I don't own one, I'm a through and through Canon man, and I'm in the
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>>I'm just amazed that a Yank could stoop so low as to make "humourous"
>>comments around the area of their greatest ever disaster (after Bush, that
>>is, and he's both - humour (though unintentional) and a disaster).
>>Gorm.
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> It was humourous, and you are are a wanker.
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"Gormless" <simeon@gormless.com> wrote in message
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> Aww, bless. The truth is so hurtful.
> The wanker is Bush.

Is that the typical way you reply to criticism when you don't have anything
witty to say - "the truth is so hurtful"?
I bet it saves you a lot of trouble thinking and leaves you with a real warm
feeling of superiority - just like when you unwrap the chips from the
newspaper.

And I even stooped to use British spelling......

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That bad eh?


SMS wrote:
> Ray Fischer wrote:
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>> Topic <no@no.com> wrote:
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>>> So, what's the truth behind all these accounts of looters breaking
>>> into camera stores and tossing Olympus E300's contemptuously aside as
>>> they search for something worth stealing?
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>> Or breaking into the camera stores in order to leave behind Sigma dSLRs.
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> They did steal some Sigmas, but they returned them.

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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:39:24 -0400, "Claim Guy"
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>> Shortly afterward, the two founders did an interview with
>> Terry Gross on PBS. She asked them if they had ever refrained from
>> printing anything because it was just too far over the top. They said
>> no, but, after considerable hemming and hawing, admitted that they had
>> pulled one thing, after a lot of consideration.
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>> They were going to print a picture of a journalist standing in
>> front of the Pentagon. The caption was to read, "'We have everything
>> under control' says Quadragon official."
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>> I recently ran across, but forgot the URL, a UK site that
>> seems to equal theonion. I'd be happy to have someone come up with the
>> name of the site.
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>www.deadbrain.co.uk ?
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Yep, that looks like it. Thanks.