Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree Austin, a whole generation completely compromised by one stained dress. The moral of the story is? Always, always pay for the dry cleaning. Chicks cannot resist free dry cleaning. John Collier PS: Vainly trying to write something more ridiculous than what is below but failing miserably. Kennedy ruined me, sigh. If only I could have come of age under Nixon or Bush Sr. After all what is a little manly burglary and what was all that fuss about a few peon's savings. > From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> > > <begin hissing and spitting, and slight drool out of quivering bottom lip> > > What do you mean "time will tell"? The stock market has gone down almost > %70! VERY legitimate companies were destroyed, and continue to be, and very > ILLIGITMATE companies walked away with billions of dollars bilked from > honest investors. As I've said a dozen times, by the time we figure out who > the guilty are, they guilty will be long gone. > > Tens of thousands of fresh out of college (or flunked out of college) kids > believed they could be instant billionaires by just starting an > "ILoveChocolate.Com" web site...and now they are back at mommy's, and have > to get real jobs...or not. > > It is, in fact, this overinflated/unrealistic perception of reality, and the > undervaluing of real work, that has deflated our economy during the recent > past years. Why work, when you don't have to? Why actually make a decent > product and sell it for a profit, when you can just make your company LOOK > like it's worth something, and sell the company instead of the product. > > Kids today want jobs where they can "socialize" instead of actually > work...it's called "teen talk time". These kids became young adults and > adults during "that" (the Clinton years) time, and because of it, they have > no real sense of values. "Hell, the President never had a real job, so why > should I". Not all, mind you, but from what I see, quite a lot of them. > Kids in my town don't want to work...I can't even get some kid to cut my > lawn! I've got to hire some out of work engineer, who charges $50 to push a > lawnmower (and calls himself a "landscaper")... > > <OK, end hissing and spitting etc.> > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html