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To: TobagoJack who wrote (44981)	1/19/2004 5:38:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Hong Kong? where is that?> Hahaha!! Different world. Another planet, from a time long ago. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (44981)	1/19/2004 10:54:57 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, I'm getting worried. Wherever I look I see share prices going up. I see a "Chop-flies" effect here. Let me explain what I call "chop-flies" effect. Over twenty years ago, we were building transmission links in the Northern Nigerian Savannah. Back at base camp, two of our fellows said they would be able to eat chop-flies. It's a worm that gets wings and fly at onset of the rain season. A delicacy for the bush people in Nigeria. Forget about, some said, this is 90% shit like any insect. But they eat it because of the high protein content, am Austrian said You've got to eat a whole bucket to get the protein content of a Bratwurst. Another counter. You know, that kind of talk over Rock Beer. So the two guys tell their staff to go fetch some chop flies. "For what?" they asked. "We go fry am and chop am!" They replied: "Ah, ah, this man, na dey crazy!" was the answer. They were going to fry and eat them washed down with Rock Beer. The Nigerians brought a whole bowl in half minute enjoying the prospects of seeing two idiots eating chop flies. We all moved to their cabin and they went on to prepare them. Wash or not wash? Oil or butter? When it came to these practicalities, the chop flies started being not that palatable as when they were only by the time they were talking and not actually handling them. Two guys with more sense. Me and Otto (or with less beer, perhaps) said: "OK, lets hand over the pan the bowl and everything to the boys quarters and lets drink one for the road and get to sleep." We forget about the whole thing" But our friend s had gone too far, they could no longer retreat, since some were saying: "I told you you wouldn't eat? or "You said you would eat! Now you've got to prove.! So they fired the insects and ate them by the spoon full. I left since I could bear the crackling sound of an exoskeleton animal being crushed by a human being, you know the sound of crashing a coackroach? Well, then you know why I left. They felt sick, and they've thrown out and they woke up feeling sicker and could eat breakfast and we had a whole day in the bush in front of us. The market is like the guys saying they would eat "chop-flies", the market is going up, once they have to deal with the realities, it will be difficult to step back, the result will be the same my friends had in the aftermath of their gourmet incursion on the diet of a Northern Nigeria Hausaman. In the economy of the US today, no one is allowed to say: "I am going to outsoruce real good in 2004." "I'm not going to hire." Everyone is putting that brave face before seeing the chop flies, alive, jumping in the bowl and they have to eat them. And the sound, the sound of them being crunched you won;t easily forget!!!!