XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: nospam@thanksalot.com   
      
   Canuck57 wrote:   
   > On 11/07/2011 11:26 PM, merlin! wrote:   
   >> John Fleming wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:39:04 -0700, while chained to a desk   
   >>> in the scriptorium "merlin!"  wrote:   
   >>>> $John Fleming wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> $>  Charles Dickens put it so well -   
   >>>> $>   
   >>>> $>      My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr.   
   >>>> $>      Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual   
   >>>> $>  expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.   
   >>>> $>      Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty   
   >>>> $>      pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is   
   >>>> $>      blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes   
   >>>> $>      down upon the dreary scene, and, in short, you are   
   >>>> $>      for ever floored. As I am!   
   >>>> $>   
   >>>> $>  Living within your means isn't exactly a new concept.   
   >>>> $   
   >>>> $No, no it isn't. Managing that in today's tyrannical tax-slavery   
   >>>> and $"invented debt" society, is. Not a problem for you, of   
   >>>> course. You are so $much smarter than the rest of us.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are lots of us who manage to live within our means.   
   >>> And it doesn't take a lot of brains.   
   >>   
   >> Obviously not, since you manage it.   
   >>   
   >>> All it takes is a   
   >>> commitment to spending less each month than you earn.   
   >>   
   >> Keeping your head down when the government goons are sniffing around   
   >> also helps.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> Yes, sometimes you have to tighten your belt.  Maybe   
   >>> deferring a few treats for a while.  I don't think it means   
   >>> living on a diet of Kraft dinner, but it may mean a   
   >>> staycation instead of a trip to Barbados.   
   >>   
   >> You don't think. Period.   
   >   
   > No, your not intelligent enough to understand.  Too much pot smoking?   
      
   No pot. No drugs at all. I see that you are very fond of alchohol   
   though...   
      
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