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To: ambrose
All of you will be sorry, very very sorry.

Not I.
I see this as a rare win-win scenario.
It's McClintock or Bustamante for me.

A hope to save the state or a quick death.
I'll take either one.
Just spare me the slow death by terminator.
This crisis is not a learn-on-the-job-ooops opportunity.

198 posted on 08/28/2003 10:50:43 PM PDT by Publius6961 (californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Publius6961
Bump!

I think it was Mark Twain, author of the American classics, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who said that there are two ways to boil a live frog. The first involves heating the water until it boils and then throwing in the frog. It is likely the frog will feel the heat and jump out. The second involves putting the frog in a pot of cold water and then slowly heating up the water until it boils. He asserts that the frog will not realize the slow increase in temperature. It will change its body temperature to balance with the surrounding environment. By the time the frog realizes the water is too hot, it would have been boiled to death.

Like you, I recognize that the slow boil is a far greater danger to us than the quick boil.

200 posted on 08/28/2003 10:58:41 PM PDT by ambrose (If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention...)
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