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To: Nachum

I used to be a big technocrat.

I've lately been wondering how foolish it was for anyone to have left the farm life, for any reason at all.


4 posted on 05/21/2006 9:49:36 AM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing
I used to be a big technocrat. I've lately been wondering how foolish it was for anyone to have left the farm life, for any reason at all.

Thats easy...Try having diabetes without technology.

6 posted on 05/21/2006 9:53:27 AM PDT by Havok (I like meat, guns, and comic books. Am I a bad conservative?)
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To: SteveMcKing; Nachum
I used to be a big technocrat. I've lately been wondering how foolish it was for anyone to have left the farm life, for any reason at all.

LOL. Reminds me of the story about the rich Wall Street banker (WSB) and the poor Mexican fisherman (PMF). The WSB is on vacation and notices the PMF brings in quite a haul whenever he chooses to go fishing. He begins telling him that if he fished every day, bought a few more boats and hired some help, he could greatly increase his volume. Then, if he moved to the States and began a fish processing plant, he could eventually take it public, get rich & retire.

The PMF asked what would he do then. The WSB replied that he could then move back to his village, kick back and go fishing whenever he felt ...

15 posted on 05/21/2006 10:25:44 AM PDT by lemura
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