magnetic field

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
news:10q5ohbd10nu8f1@corp.supernews.com...

"JeffM" wrote ...
This presentation didn't even mention the way when one
township rejects them they go to the low-rent district that
abuts the town and set up there. The get a sweetheart deal
on tax breaks with the hard-pressed city gov't there. When
the tax breaks run out, they pull up stakes and find a new
bunch of suckers, leaving in their wake a town devoid of
Mom & Pop businesses.

What an excelent place to start a Mom & Pop business. But
I guess Neo-Libs who have become dependent on the nanny
state don't think in those terms. Seriously unimpressed sums
up my view of this useless thread. Bye.

I guess we all know where he's coming from. He must own
stock in Wal-mart. ;-)

 

[R. Steve Walz]

Richard Crowley wrote:

Tolerance goes both ways, or is that only a rightist opinion?
-------------

No, that's what thieves try to convince us of to stay out of jail!
Tolerance for your Evil is called Vice!

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[R. Steve Walz]

John Larkin wrote:

We don't have Wal-marts here in correctland, but I went to one for my
first time while visiting The Brat at college. I thought it was
great... lots of stuff, great prices, and very friendly people
everywhere to help you find things. I bought four pairs of great
velcro shoes for $14 per pair.

Why do people keep tying shoes? What an anachronism!
-------------------------

Because velcro when it stops holding sounds like loud crinkling saran
wrap akin to the third day of rain at Woodstock when you don't stand
perfectly absolutely still. Most new products they tell us we "need"
are nothing more than mass experiments at theft from us that SHOULD
have been done on only a few hundred pairs in a nice People's State
testing lab and their defects discovered BEFORE we make 10,000,000 of
them, so we can punish the moron who "invented" this crap and so the
materials are not wasted!!

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[repatch]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:46:43 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark
Remover" wrote:

I don't know how old you are, but I'm old enough to remember the first
time ('70s) the Japanese (Matsushita) dumped TVs on the american market
and put most of the domestic TV makers out of business. And don't give me
that BS about "live with it".

Well, consider this: what allowed them to "dump" the TVs on the market?
Was it because the american TVs were OVERPRICED? Hmm, perhaps so...

The Japanese gov't found them guilty of
dumping, and they were fined $150 million. Yeah, $150 million. That's not
something any competing ompany should have to "live with".

That's simply not fair. The Japanese companies offered TVs at FAIR prices,
not the over-bloated prices of other manufacturers. And what reward are
they given? A fine. Doesn't sound very fair to me, and is definitely
against everything capitalism is supposed to mean.

My guess is the ONLY reason the Japanese government did this was because
of pressure from the US, can't make the US angry, so let's punish
ourselves...

This time, the Japanes are getting some of their own medicine. The
Chinese are dumping TVs onto the Japanese market and putting a lot of
pressure on the Japanese domestic TV makers to cut their prices to be
competitive.

And why shouldn't they? If the Chinese can make TVs cheaper why shouldn't
they? Why as a consumer should I pay MORE for the EXACT SAME THING??

But the U.S. Int'l Trade Commission has found the Chinese TV makers guilty
of dumping, and now imposes a tariff on each TV set. That's again not a
case of doing what the consumers want, dumping is a case of doing what the
competitors can't compete against.

If they can't compete they shouldn't be in business. They have been over
charging consumers for years, and consumers are supposed to defend them??

You don't seem to see the forest for
the trees.

I simply see things like this: if a company can't compete they shouldn't
use my tax money to artificially keep them going.

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:

I'm seriously impressed by the $$$ she got for this - $28k. Gee, it's
time we learned to artfully make toast with figures of famous deities,
etc.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/11/17/grilled-cheese-mary-04
71117.html

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=553589
0757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I bet you wish _you_ did that.

See, that's why I was all excited when internet-connected
appliances were first announced; a USB port on my toaster,
and I can "print" anything on my toast, including spam...

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Rich Grise]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:52:16 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the
bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only
polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of
to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he
yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot
and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw
up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then
suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a
minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the
door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's
outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my
rude language and actions I'm sincerely remorseful for my
inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can
to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior." John was stunned at the
change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what
had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued,
"May I ask what the turkey did?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

LOL! And here, I was sitting anticipating, "Eppie in de toal hole!"

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rhett Auricle]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:11:47 +0000, petrus bitbyter wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> schreef in bericht
....
change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what
had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued,
"May I ask what the turkey did?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Who repaired the light switch of the freezer? Apparently the light did not
go off when the freezers door was closed.

Ah, grasshopper - the darkness enhances the effectiveness of the
punishment. "Hello? Dead turkey?..."

;^j
R.

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Keith" <NOkmonSPAM@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news5udnQcMB8_i-z7cRVn-hw@giganews.com...

"JeffM" <jeffm_@email.com> wrote in message
news:f8b945bc.0411221556.1e71695f@posting.google.com...

If you want to see television that doesn't bend over for
corporations,
PBS is the last bastion--

And on the other hand, if you want to see television that bends over
for
gays(I just couldn't resist), tree-huggers, gun-control nuts,
democratic
presidents(and presidential candidates) and senators, and the rest of
the
wacko left-wing causes, simply watch CBS, ABC, NBC, or the rest of the
main-stream media.

It's funny how the majority of the people voting anti-business have no

You need to get over your 'attitude' and learn to view things more
objectively.

problems patronizing our malls, shopping at Wal-Mart, etc. Wal-Mart
exists
because consumers want low prices, and Wal-Mart gives it to them. The
same
people who are on the news talking about "it's such a shame to see
Wal-Mart
destroy the local businesses" finish up their rants with, "oh, btw,
when is
it going to open?". If everyone boycotted Wal-Mart, there would be no
Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart adds considerable tax revenue to any town ---
money that
the Mom and Pop shops weren't generating.

I think that point is debatable. If a store sells something for less,
the taxes are less, and therefore the local revenue is less. DUH.

In addition, Wal-Mart's also puts
money back in the communities, in terms of donations to charities,
improving
the local infrastructure, etc.

And you're implying that the local small business do not? Another big
DUH.

When local people complain about Wal-Mart,
the number one reason I see stated is that it adds too much traffic to
an
area. Traffic = tax revenue generation. Doesn't sound bad to me.....
Tax
revenue generation = money to widen roads, improve school districts,
etc.

As if..

The traffic issue is often a legitimate problem brought up in meetings
because it can be easily quantified. The traffice eng'r puts a box and
counts the number of cars. If it's a lot more, then it's a problem.

This ends up costing the municipality a lot of money because they may
have to mitigate the traffic problens. But all this is not really
related to the other legitimate topics that were brought up in this
thread.

I still have yet to figure out why the baby boomer generation will pay
three
times more for the same exact product by shopping at a Mom and Pop
shop.
This is certainly anecdotal and you can place whatever worth you want
on it.

Maybe that's because they know the proprietors, and they know the owner
has to make a decent living, and can't close up his shop and start
working for Wal-mart part-time at sub-poverty wages and expect to make a
living.

[snip]

Paying $8.00 for a $3.00 part simply isn't acceptable in my eyes.

The problem is that the "$3 part" isn't. It's a fraction of a dollar
when it leaves the plant in China. Wal-mart _dictates_ to the
manufacturer what they will pay for it. And the extra $5 you claim the
mom-n-pop stores are overcharging looks like peanuts when you compare it
to the amount that Wal-mart is 'overcharging' you for the $3 part -
percentage-wise.

I just got through watching ABC News, and they showed a piece about kids
playing mature rated video games. They said that the average young
adult has spent ten thousand hours playing video games.

The thought occurred to me that this may be a major contributor to the
dumbing of young kids. They don't spend enough time reading even a
newspaper. The kids have substituted video games as their
entertainment. Bunch of illiterates!

In a like manner, I would compare Wal-mart to this in that they are
giving the consumer not mind candy but wallet candy, and in so doing,
undermining the country economically, just like the video games are
undermining the minds of the younger generation.

If
Wal-mart offers the SAME PRODUCT(same brand, same quality, etc) at a
lower
price, I have to shop there. And most of America agrees with me, most

You don't _have_ to shop there. There are other factors. One is
Costco. They may sell it cheaper than Wal-mart. Another factor is you
may be paying more for the Wal-mart goods because you have to drive more
miles to get the goods, and as gas prices increase, this may be an even
bigger factor. Before the Wal-mart came to the local mall, I wouldn't
shop at either Wal-mart ot Costco because they were ten miles too far
away.

people shop there too. You can't argue that the community suffers as
a
result, because the pure tax revenues and jobs created well exceed
what had
been in place before.

Again, as I stated above, that's an incorrect assumption. DUH.

You can also argue the differences in terms of service too, but I've
been on
my soapbox long enough.

Your soapbox is made of cheap cardboard because you got it at Wal-mart.

I believe in the power of the people. If you don't want Wal-Marts in
your
area, good. Mobilize your troops, get the community involved, and
chase
them out. Boycott them. Elect people to your local government who
share
your interests.

Perhaps it's better that the average consumer gets his wallet candy at
Wal-mart. That way, they will leave us, the ones with more common
sense, to shop online and on Ebay, and get even better deals. ;-)

Keith
Pittsburgh

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Mark Fergerson" <nunya@biz.ness> wrote in message
news:dDJod.156811$G15.11610@fed1read03...

Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:

I'm seriously impressed by the $$$ she got for this - $28k. Gee,
it's
time we learned to artfully make toast with figures of famous
deities,
etc.


http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/11/17/grilled-cheese-mary-04
71117.html


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=553589
0757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I bet you wish _you_ did that.

See, that's why I was all excited when internet-connected
appliances were first announced; a USB port on my toaster,
and I can "print" anything on my toast, including spam...

Yeah! There ya go! Just like inkjet printers. But you don't have to
pay an arm and a leg for the cartridges.


> Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Richard Crowley]

"Watson A.Name - wrote ...

"Mark Fergerson" wrote
See, that's why I was all excited when internet-connected
appliances were first announced; a USB port on my toaster,
and I can "print" anything on my toast, including spam...

Yeah! There ya go! Just like inkjet printers. But you don't
have to pay an arm and a leg for the cartridges.

Don't they have inkjet printers that use edible dye for
"printing" images/photos onto cakes? I've seen the
cakes, but not the equipment.

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"repatch" <repatch42@yahoo.com> wrote in message
newsan.2004.11.23.16.07.17.776698@yahoo.com...

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:46:43 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the
Dark
Remover" wrote:
I don't know how old you are, but I'm old enough to remember the
first
time ('70s) the Japanese (Matsushita) dumped TVs on the american
market
and put most of the domestic TV makers out of business. And don't
give me
that BS about "live with it".

Well, consider this: what allowed them to "dump" the TVs on the
market?
Was it because the american TVs were OVERPRICED? Hmm, perhaps so...

No, it was (and this was the reason the Japanese gov't caught them)
because they were _overcharging_ the Japanese consumers for the TVs, so
they could still make a profit.

The Japanese gov't found them guilty of
dumping, and they were fined $150 million. Yeah, $150 million.
That's not
something any competing ompany should have to "live with".

That's simply not fair. The Japanese companies offered TVs at FAIR
prices,
not the over-bloated prices of other manufacturers. And what reward
are
they given? A fine. Doesn't sound very fair to me, and is definitely
against everything capitalism is supposed to mean.

No, as I said above they screwed their own people to make inroads into
the U.S. domestic TV market. Simply shifting the costs.

As for FAIR prices, the gov't charged these companies with dumping them
at UNfair prices, below FAIR market value.

My guess is the ONLY reason the Japanese government did this was
because
of pressure from the US, can't make the US angry, so let's punish
ourselves...

No. The U.S. _pressured_ the Japanese to forgive, and _not_ pay the 150
million to the domestic mfgrs, and in return, let the U.S. military put
bases in Japan to thwart the Soviet cold war threat.

This time, the Japanes are getting some of their own medicine. The
Chinese are dumping TVs onto the Japanese market and putting a lot
of
pressure on the Japanese domestic TV makers to cut their prices to
be
competitive.

And why shouldn't they? If the Chinese can make TVs cheaper why
shouldn't
they? Why as a consumer should I pay MORE for the EXACT SAME THING??

Wal-mart is dictating to the Chinese mfgrs what price they will pay, and
in so doing are damaging the Chinese economy. But they can do it
because they have such a large percentage of the total Chinese exports.

But the U.S. Int'l Trade Commission has found the Chinese TV makers
guilty
of dumping, and now imposes a tariff on each TV set. That's again
not a
case of doing what the consumers want, dumping is a case of doing
what the
competitors can't compete against.

If they can't compete they shouldn't be in business. They have been
over
charging consumers for years, and consumers are supposed to defend
them??

WTF is the matter with you? Overcharging? They're losing their behinds
and having to move all their production overseas. Those jobs that are
lost are _your_ jobs, so now you can't even afford to buy the goods!
HAR-HAR!

You don't seem to see the forest for the trees.

I simply see things like this: if a company can't compete they
shouldn't
use my tax money to artificially keep them going.

This would be true if the playing field were level. But it's not. And
that's why the gov't is putting tariffs on the goods. To level the
playing field.

Which would you rather have? A decent wage in a decent economy, or no
job, on welfare, in a country that's turning into a third world economy?

It's your choice.

 

[Tim]

GREAT PRICE, too bad its all made in China and no here.

We need jobs for people here, thanks for helping, your a good shopper
too bad your kids won't be able to buy anything there because they
won't have a job.




"R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message
news:41A2F1A7.4CA3@armory.com...

John Larkin wrote:

We don't have Wal-marts here in correctland, but I went to one for my
first time while visiting The Brat at college. I thought it was
great... lots of stuff, great prices, and very friendly people
everywhere to help you find things. I bought four pairs of great
velcro shoes for $14 per pair.

Why do people keep tying shoes? What an anachronism!
-------------------------
Because velcro when it stops holding sounds like loud crinkling saran
wrap akin to the third day of rain at Woodstock when you don't stand
perfectly absolutely still. Most new products they tell us we "need"
are nothing more than mass experiments at theft from us that SHOULD
have been done on only a few hundred pairs in a nice People's State
testing lab and their defects discovered BEFORE we make 10,000,000 of
them, so we can punish the moron who "invented" this crap and so the
materials are not wasted!!

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[repatch]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:19:08 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark
Remover" wrote:

it going to open?". If everyone boycotted Wal-Mart, there would be no
Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart adds considerable tax revenue to any town ---
money that
the Mom and Pop shops weren't generating.

I think that point is debatable. If a store sells something for less, the
taxes are less, and therefore the local revenue is less. DUH.

Hehe, you ARE good at twisting the truth are you?

So, lets see, you think that when prices drop, the NUMBER of items sold
will be the same?

WRONG. If prices drop MORE items will be purchased. In the end, AT WORST,
the tax revenue will be the same. MUCH more likely is the HUGE volume
Walmart deals with will INCREASE tax revenue.

As if..

The traffic issue is often a legitimate problem brought up in meetings
because it can be easily quantified. The traffice eng'r puts a box and
counts the number of cars. If it's a lot more, then it's a problem.

This ends up costing the municipality a lot of money because they may have
to mitigate the traffic problens. But all this is not really related to
the other legitimate topics that were brought up in this thread.

But more traffic means more people shopping. More people shopping means
more people stopping for gas or a bite to eat at the local restaurant. All
this means MORE incoming money to the town, easily balancing the slight
increase in road maintenance.

Paying $8.00 for a $3.00 part simply isn't acceptable in my eyes.

The problem is that the "$3 part" isn't. It's a fraction of a dollar when
it leaves the plant in China. Wal-mart _dictates_ to the manufacturer
what they will pay for it. And the extra $5 you claim the mom-n-pop
stores are overcharging looks like peanuts when you compare it to the
amount that Wal-mart is 'overcharging' you for the $3 part -
percentage-wise.

Percentage doesn't matter to the consumer. The consumer sees a part for
sale at $8 at one place and at $3 at another. It doesn't MATTER how much
profit is being made on that $3 part, the consumer sees a substantial
savings. That is GOOD for the consumer.

I just got through watching ABC News, and they showed a piece about kids
playing mature rated video games. They said that the average young adult
has spent ten thousand hours playing video games.

The thought occurred to me that this may be a major contributor to the
dumbing of young kids. They don't spend enough time reading even a
newspaper. The kids have substituted video games as their entertainment.
Bunch of illiterates!

Wow, you sound like a very interesting person. Listen, go bad to reading
your newspaper.

Hint: the internet requires ALOT of reading, and show me a kid into video
games that ISN'T into the net.

Just because they're not reading what YOU consider worthwhile doesn't mean
they aren't reading.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:15:25 GMT, "Tim" <midwestmeteor@earthlink.net>
wrote:

GREAT PRICE, too bad its all made in China and no here.

We need jobs for people here, thanks for helping, your a good shopper
too bad your kids won't be able to buy anything there because they
won't have a job.

The fact is that people in China and Indonesia and Africa need jobs,
too. In fact, they need them a lot worse than we do, for basic things
like food and medicine and keeping their kids alive. Did you buy an
American made DVD player, TV, bench vise, or dinner plates? Grapes?
Flowers? Lumber?

My kids will do fine, and I hope those Chinese and African kids will,
too. People are people.

John

 

[Charles Schuler]

Peanut butter and jelly?

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote in
message news:rsc9q0linmkq0r86h6sdmd32jti2dg7hnm@4ax.com...

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:15:25 GMT, "Tim" <midwestmeteor@earthlink.net
wrote:

GREAT PRICE, too bad its all made in China and no here.

We need jobs for people here, thanks for helping, your a good shopper
too bad your kids won't be able to buy anything there because they
won't have a job.



The fact is that people in China and Indonesia and Africa need jobs,
too.

But they shouldn't 'take' them from us; they shouldn't get jobs at the
expense of other countries. And many other countries are primareily an
agarian economy. The jobs they get aren't as necessary as for our
industrialized society.

In fact, they need them a lot worse than we do, for basic things
like food and medicine and keeping their kids alive.

They already keep their families in basic necessities with a barter
system. Fishermen trade with farmers to get the staples to each other.

Modern medicine hasn't been widely introduced in many countries. That's
why there's so much of an aids epidemic in many countries. They have a
system, and it's not like our modern medicine.

Did you buy an
American made DVD player, TV, bench vise, or dinner plates? Grapes?
Flowers? Lumber?

Point? I'm not sure.

My kids will do fine, and I hope those Chinese and African kids will,
too. People are people.

People are people but societies are societies. You can see that right
now, with the problems in the middle east. As a matter of fact, I'd say
that much of the problems there have been caused by the introduction of
'modern' culture, and they're going thru a backlash, to the 'old ways'.
Similarly to what happened in Iran decades ago.

> John

 

[Mac]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:11:47 +0000, petrus bitbyter wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> schreef in bericht
news:l4u6q0prvkgvibsqp6cr2bff7jcbvhjjem@4ax.com...
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the
bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only
polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of
to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he
yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot
and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw
up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then
suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a
minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the
door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's
outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my
rude language and actions I'm sincerely remorseful for my
inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can
to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior." John was stunned at the
change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what
had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued,
"May I ask what the turkey did?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.


Who repaired the light switch of the freezer? Apparently the light did not
go off when the freezers door was closed.

petrus bitbyter

So the story features a parrot capable of reasoning and conversing
interactively with a human, but the part that you find implausible is that
the parrot can see in the dark?

Interesting. ;-)

--Mac

 

[petrus bitbyter]

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> schreef in bericht
news:l4u6q0prvkgvibsqp6cr2bff7jcbvhjjem@4ax.com...

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the
bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only
polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of
to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he
yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot
and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw
up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then
suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a
minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the
door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's
outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my
rude language and actions I'm sincerely remorseful for my
inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can
to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior." John was stunned at the
change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what
had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued,
"May I ask what the turkey did?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Who repaired the light switch of the freezer? Apparently the light did not
go off when the freezers door was closed.

petrus bitbyter


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[Glenn Gundlach]

Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message news:<l4u6q0prvkgvibsqp6cr2bff7jcbvhjjem@4ax.com>...

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the
bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only
polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of
to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he
yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot
and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw
up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then
suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a
minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the
door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's
outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my
rude language and actions I'm sincerely remorseful for my
inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can
to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior." John was stunned at the
change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what
had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued,
"May I ask what the turkey did?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

ROTFLMAO

Good show. Thanks for the laugh.

GG

 

[Bill Sloman]

Mac <foo@bar.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.25.07.09.20.71996@bar.net>...

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:11:47 +0000, petrus bitbyter wrote:


"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> schreef in bericht
news:l4u6q0prvkgvibsqp6cr2bff7jcbvhjjem@4ax.com...

<big snip>

Who repaired the light switch of the freezer? Apparently the light did not
go off when the freezers door was closed.

petrus bitbyter


So the story features a parrot capable of reasoning and conversing
interactively with a human, but the part that you find implausible is that
the parrot can see in the dark?

Interesting. ;-)

Tecumseh Fitch, who knows a bit about animal language

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wtsf/

has been known to say that the African Grey Parrot is the best
non-human speaker around, and can do quite a bit better than mere
parroting.

http://www.alexfoundation.org/research/articles/harvard/harvard.html

So I guess the idea of the parrot seeing in the dark is more
implausible, because no creature's eye works in the dark.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen