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Cliff
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/30/terrifying-sea-critter-from-oceans-depths/
Was from Faux .....
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"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."
--Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
--Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics magazine, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best
people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out
the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
--Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television"
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting
on the microchip
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a
message sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the
radio in the 1920s
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a
'C,' the idea must be feasible."
--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal
Express Corp.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary
Cooper."
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America
likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962
]
Chief Egalitarian
"Cliff" <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in message
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Brian Lawson
HAPPY EASTER.
Seems to have gotten lost in the flame wars, but I wish everyone the
best anyway.
Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.
Wes
>Hey All,
>
>HAPPY EASTER.
Happy Easter back to you and the rest of the group.
Wes
Don Foreman
Wabbit on the Weber, yum!
Gunner Asch
<UNfi...@UNoptonline.net> wrote:
>>> "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
>>> America
>>> likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you
>>> make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
>>> "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca
>>> Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962 ]
>>
>> "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."
>> -- George W. Bush discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder
>> Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson
1. "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a
three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no,
no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
... God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God
damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme." ... "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far
more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never
batted an eye." ... "We have supported state terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because
the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own
front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." ... "We
started the AIDS virus ... as a means of genocide against people of
color." --Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in various
sermons
2. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if
he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He
happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up
in the concept." --Clinton fundraiser and former Democratic vice
presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who resigned from Clinton's
campaign after making the remark
3. "She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping
to anything." --Obama aide Samantha Powers, on Hillary Clinton. Powers
resigned after making the remark
4. "For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my
country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think
people are hungry for change." --Michelle Obama
5. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to
anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?' There are so many openings for
Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome." --Clinton campaign
co-chairman Bill Shaheen, arguing that Barack Obama's drug
experimentation as a youth would become an issue in the general election
campaign. Shaheen, the husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne
Shaheen, resigned after making the remark
6. "I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win
a Democratic primary election for president, but perhaps that theory
will be tested." --Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, likening Barack
Obama's stepped-up criticism of Clinton to the probe by independent
prosecutor Ken Starr that led to Bill Clinton's impeachment
7. "Mr. Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of
the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the
timing is appropriate, if ironic." --Clinton supporter James Carville,
calling New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama
"an act of betrayal"
8. "I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where
you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the
interest of this country. And people could actually ask themselves who
is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always
seems to intrude itself on our politics." --Bill Clinton, speaking in
North Carolina about a matchup between Hillary Clinton and John McCain,
which critics took as an implication that Obama was unpatriotic
9. "It sounds more like McCarthy. ... I was going to college when Joe
McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had
enough of it." --Merrill "Tony" McPeak, a former chief of staff of the
Air Force and a co-chair of Obama's presidential campaign, on Bill
Clinton seemingly questioning Obama's patriotism
10. "This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the
one on Monica's blue dress." --Obama adviser Gordon Fischer, on Bill
Clinton's attacks on Obama