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"Juan" wrote in message oups.com... for democracy to exist. But as people believe what the media says, you can also use a sign of illiteracy (a finger dipped in ink for signing) to advertize fountain pen ink. Uhm, the finger dipped in ink is not used for signing; it is to demonstrate that the person HAS voted (and thus cannot vote again). They should try that method in Louisiana. |
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"Juan" wrote in message ups.com... Maybe. Although I've been told I have a thick skin. Nope. just a large rectum. |
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"Roger" wrote in message ... On 6 Oct 2005 14:32:16 -0700, "*david*" wrote, at least in part: The difference today is that the Americans are not fighting the evil, or even ignoring it, but participating in it instead. Give it up, Nathan, it's useless going up against the mindset of David and his ilk. You are correct, sir. These are the same kinds of people as the Jews who stayed and stayed and stayed, even though they had the money and resources to leave. They found it incomprehensible that anyone could be so evil. My grandmother was like that. Then again, even when she died (near ninety years) in the eighties, she still believed that 1. airplanes don't really fly; 2. WWII never happened (it was like some big kind of movie), because 2.a. no one could be doing such horrible things as Hitler was doing, and 2.b. it would take too long to sail a boat to Europe or Japan to have a war. Mind you, this in spite of living in a town that had a couple of aircraft carriers regularly going in and out of the bay. Some people just do NOT want to accept reality. |
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On 2 Oct 2005 04:41:48 -0700, "Juan" wrote:
I've seen in some movies people writing with dipping pens using brown ink. That's smoke and mirrors; when dipping pens were the rule, people used black or blue ink which with time turned brown because of oxidation. Sepia ink (squirted out of a cuttlefish) has always been brownish, even when fresh, Iron gall ink is the stuff that's initially (sic) black, then ages to brown as it burns the paper. |
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"Juan" writes:
you work in a camp in the rainforest?. BTW, I find that the names of some of the colors are simply put *bad taste* (Tiananmen, Iraqi Indigo...). I find it in bad taste that you think those are in bad taste. -- Mark Atwood When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. http://mark.atwood.name/ http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/ |
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"*david*" writes:
Is the love of freedom now un-PC? Is the love of freedom now a sin???!!! Nathan, it just isn't that simple. The fact that you think it *is* that simple, is the problem in a nutshell. I am caused to be reminded what Granny Weatherwax has to say to and about people who like to say "it just isn't that simple". And the author of that character is UKian, not USian, which forcloses the "stupid cowboy US" argument. -- Mark Atwood When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. http://mark.atwood.name/ http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/ |
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Am 30.5.2006, Mark Atwood schrieb:
"Juan" writes: you work in a camp in the rainforest?. BTW, I find that the names of some of the colors are simply put *bad taste* (Tiananmen, Iraqi Indigo...). I find it in bad taste that you think those are in bad taste. This isn't necessarily an issue of supporting freedom or tyranny. It's also a matter of commercially exploiting politics and the life and death struggles of others. Those names are marketing by gestural politics. Unfortunately, that politics of gesture and aura depends on us remembering the people who fought and died in '89 or in the long struggle against the CIA-installed, Reagan-supported regime. Unlike the people who were actually involved in those struggles, merely buying the ink -- or, in the producer's case, selling it -- does nothing to further freedom in Iraq or China. The suggestion that the purchase will put the buyer side on the side of freedom is an illusion. The reality is the money going into the seller's wallet. That's crass. That's cynicism. Count me out. -- Barutan Seijin -- |
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