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It's OT after all - Warren Buffet never got a train set for Christmas

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Wolf K

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Nov 4, 2009, 10:19:45 AM11/4/09
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"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a
kid."
- WARREN BUFFETT, joking about his decision to buy a railroad, the
Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Corporation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/04deal.html?th&emc=th

cheers, wolf k.

vmanes

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Nov 4, 2009, 10:38:51 AM11/4/09
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Isn't this just the realization of one of Model Railroader's April Fool's
stories from a few years ago - the building of a 1:1 scale model of a
railroad - the Wisconsin Central, IIRC?

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Christopher A. Lee

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Nov 4, 2009, 10:52:36 AM11/4/09
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:45 -0500, Wolf K <wek...@sympatico.ca>
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Warren Buffet to his son:

"What do you want for your birthday this year"

"A computer"

So he buys him IBM.

Next year he asks him aagain.

"A train set"

So he buys him BNSF.

Next year he asks hin again.

"A cowboy outfit"

So he buys him Microsoft.

Wolf K

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Nov 4, 2009, 2:31:38 PM11/4/09
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ROTFL

wolf k.

vmanes

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Nov 4, 2009, 5:02:10 PM11/4/09
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"Christopher A. Lee" <ca...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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"A computer"

"A train set"

"A cowboy outfit"

~~~~~~~

The usual last line to that sequence is "A Mickey Mouse outfit." So he buys
him (fill in the blank)


vmanes

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Nov 4, 2009, 6:05:18 PM11/4/09
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BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe


(not mine, from a friend in another group)


Bruce Burden

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Nov 5, 2009, 12:43:47 AM11/5/09
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vmanes <vma...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
: BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe
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Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed?

Bruce
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Steve Caple

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:19:16 AM11/5/09
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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:43:47 GMT, Bruce Burden wrote:

> vmanes <vma...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>: BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe
>:
> Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed?

Whatever - definitely better than Uncle Pervert.

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Steve

No, "Touched by an Uncle" is NOT a show about railroads.

David Nebenzahl

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:42:18 AM11/5/09
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On 11/5/2009 12:19 AM Steve Caple spake thus:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:43:47 GMT, Bruce Burden wrote:
>
>> vmanes <vma...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe
>>
>> Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed?
>
> Whatever - definitely better than Uncle Pervert.

Ha; was walking the tracks through Berkeley the other day and saw
someone had scrawled "Fuck Union Pathetic" on a sign. Thought you'd like
that.


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blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom?

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Steve Caple

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Nov 5, 2009, 5:46:33 PM11/5/09
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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:42:18 -0800, David Nebenzahl wrote:

> On 11/5/2009 12:19 AM Steve Caple spake thus:
>
>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:43:47 GMT, Bruce Burden wrote:
>>
>>> vmanes <vma...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >>
>>>> BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe
>>>
>>> Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed?
>>
>> Whatever - definitely better than Uncle Pervert.
>
> Ha; was walking the tracks through Berkeley the other day and saw
> someone had scrawled "Fuck Union Pathetic" on a sign. Thought you'd like
> that.

Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his
"chest"?


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Steve

Twibil

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Nov 5, 2009, 8:02:16 PM11/5/09
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On Nov 5, 2:46 pm, Steve Caple <steveca...@commoncast.net> wrote:
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>
> Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his
> "chest"?

Oh, probably not, seeing that it's already been done many times
before...

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/121/images/wasp2.jpg

http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/envimages/Standard.oil.Octopus.7.18.1880.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3459839034_5344e218ab.jpg

http://octoprop.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/corporate-greed_27-06-1882.jpg

Steve Caple

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Nov 6, 2009, 4:41:08 AM11/6/09
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:02:16 -0800 (PST), Twibil wrote:

Well, yes, but: those aren't Uncle Pervert's railroad - although Uncle
Pervo has now gobbled up Southern Pacific, the octpus of frank Norris'
novel.


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Steve

Twibil

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Nov 6, 2009, 2:14:45 PM11/6/09
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On Nov 6, 1:41 am, Steve Caple <steveca...@commoncast.net> wrote:
>
>
> >> Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his
> >> "chest"?
>
> > Oh, probably not, seeing that it's already been done many times
> > before...
>
> Well, yes, but:  those aren't Uncle Pervert's railroad  -  although Uncle
> Pervo has now gobbled up Southern Pacific, the octpus of frank Norris'
> novel.  

So? Under our current legal system, any of your neighbors can sue you
at any moment for any imagined slight, and tales of such lawsuits are
rife.

http://www.thevoiceofreason.com/RealFunnyNews/2007/7-SillyLawsuits.htm

Onion Pacific is no different in that regard than any other legal
entity, but the odds of them filing suit for your having made one "UP
octopus" are nil. (Were you to go into business selling them for a
living it would no doubt be a different story.)

Q: What's the difference between Union Pacific and an onion?

A: Nobody would cry if you chopped up Union Pacific.

~Pete

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