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To: SilentZ who wrote (468805)	4/3/2009 10:37:08 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579125

The extreme right wingnuts have a whole little crop of unemployed whore "historians" on the payroll. A bunch will work at the W Bush Liberry.

To: SilentZ who wrote (468805)	4/4/2009 8:56:25 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1579125

Z, a long time ago we PMed about great TV show DVDs, and I talked about Frank's Place. I had obtained a DVD copy that was actually burned from old VHS recordings... lousy quality but still the only thing available. I promised to send you a copy... and finally got around to trying to copy the disks. Anyway I made copies of shows 1-10 and 19-22... couldn't get the others to work. If you want to see those send me a shipping address and I'll send them out. VERY cool situation comedy, I think the best ever on TV. No laugh track which was very unusual before and since.

To: SilentZ who wrote (468805)	4/4/2009 11:51:16 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579125

The WPA introduced the term boondoggle to the American language: The term boondoggle, in the sense of a project that wastes time and money, first appeared during the Great Depression in the 1930s, referring to the millions of jobs given to unemployed men and women to try to get the economy moving again, as part of the New Deal. It came into common usage after a 1935 New York Times headline claimed that over $3 million had been spent teaching the jobless how to make boon doggles.[1] It also refers to government or corporate project involving large numbers of people and usually heavy expenditure; at some point, the key operators have realized that the project is never going to work, but are reluctant to bring this to the attention of their superiors. Generally there is an aspect of "going through the motions" – for example, continuing research and development – as long as funds are available to keep paying the researchers' and executives' salaries. en.wikipedia.org