"Sue" <sebrady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:42:31 +0200, Tihomir <tgrebena@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
: wrote:
:
: >Instead of taking 32 puffs of smoke, Jef. spoketh upon us:
: >
: >>"...if you had a beef with a department store, for instance, you could
: >>always go to another department store: '**** you, Macy's I'm going to
: >>Gimbels!' "
: >>"You couldn't say: '**** you, Phone Company! I'm going to the ...uh...
other
: >>phone company...' "
: >>' Yeah, schmuck? *WHAT* other phone company?'
: >>"Man; you get too hot with the Phone Company and they'll **** *you*,
Jim!
: >>You'll wind up with a piece of string and a couple of tin cans:
'Hello?
: >>Hello...?' "
: >
: >Home appliances? There used to be dozens of manufacturers to choose
: >from. All with their original ideas and designs. All made in Europe.
: >Now there is only Electrolux, who bought out every other major company
: >in Europe.
: >Cars? German Volkswagen bought Audi, bought Spanish Seat, bought Czech
: >Skoda and so on. Peugeot bought Citroen, Talbot...
: >
: >Globalisation everywhere. But do we really understand what it brings.
: >
: >The best joke is this: whatever brand of computer or computer part you
: >buy, it is all made in the same neighborhood. You can't buy a
: >motherboard made in Germany. Or a DVD drive from the UK. There is, for
: >example, a large, huge, plant for manufacturing motherboards, which
: >are sold to half a dozen companies who stick their stickers on them
: >and sell them under different names.
: >
: >I am getting carried away, but honestly, every day we have less real
: >choice. But that is not the real problem.
: >The real problem is that we think we do.
:
: Go to the cereal aisle at your local grocery store. Better yet, take
: a child to the cereal aisle.
: Sue - ducking
/me raises hand
I'll go!!!!!!! I want some cereal!!!!!! Noooooowwwwwwww!!!!!!
pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.
Holy ****, now *That* was a flashback.
The cereal aisle with a child is one of the circles of hell in the modern
day Dante's Inferno
Sarah
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