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To: Lou Weed who wrote (244060)10/5/2007 11:06:23 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
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Thanks for the update.

BTW, have you read Terry Pratchett's works? He has a subtle and cynical sense of humor that has made me a fan over the past 20 years or so. This quote of his, for example, neatly explains the common conservatives' view of the universe:

the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.


Whereas their upper echelons are better exemplified by:

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.