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Skriven 2014-02-28 16:10:10 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10338 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: far flung 259
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 26 Feb 14  11:29:00 <=-

 ML>> I started a story (never finished it) about how it was a
 ML>> ploy to get young people on a spaceship, whence they would
 ML>> be spirited away to some distant planet and replaced by
 ML>> doppelgangers who would gradually take over and ruin the
 ML>> Earth, sort of like what seems to have happened.
 NB>> One does wonder, at times... ;)
 ML> There have been stories, Stepford Wives, Pod People, that
 ML> sort of thing. I'm not the only one who has had this idea.

The good ideas seem to occur to multiple people... ;)
 
 ML>> see) are CO. One big complaint is that the computer systems
 ML>> are CO's, and it is acknowledged much worse than the UA one
 ML>> (which my late friend Billy helped design and implement).
 NB>> Ah.  Too bad CO didn't have Billy's help...?  :)

 ML> Semi-trained monkeys. And the system was designed (?) to
 ML> support a medium-size operation, not what was for a while the
 ML> largest airline in the world.

Until the next merger...?
 
 ML>> McCormick American Whiskey.
 NB>> Never heard of the latter... probably just as well...?
 ML> Not something you'd want to become acquainted with. Mike at
 ML> the Philadelphia United Club said "it's not so bad"; the guy
 ML> at the Admiral's Club in Dallas actually winced when he
 ML> poured me a shot.

Definitely just as well...  :)   Just say no... unless one is
desperate, eh...?

 ML>> But the Muencheners liked him and followed him with something
 ML>> approaching enthusiasm.
 NB>> Or at least the vocal ones did... perhaps there were more quiet ones
 NB>> than were apparent...
 ML> One would like to think so, but the crowds were certainly big.

Crowds/mobs are easily swayed... caught up in the moment...

 ML> One thing is that Hitler originally hid his direction
 ML> somewhat, merely spouting the usual nationalistic and mildly
 ML> racist platitudes and promising jobs for all. The really
 ML> vicious stuff was not at the forefront at first.

Quite true... applaud the nationalistic, ignore the racist, and cheer
the promises of jobs...  And then be appalled by what it was the screen
for... 

ttyl          neb

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