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Skriven 2015-05-15 09:44:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: dcynicalities 642
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-12-15  06:16 <=-

 NB>> A little ambivalence there...  ;)  No minority reports that could
 NB>> salve your conscience...?
 ML> One other member of the committee also threatened to hold
 ML> her breath and turn blue if this bunch were given any money,
 ML> but whether her dead body was stepped over at the end of the
 ML> meeting I don't know, because I had to go back to the doctor's
 ML> office before that would have occurred.

Perhaps her reluctance turned the tide, and that's why you are still
being kept in the loop...?
 
 ML>> There were studies done in the late '90s early '00s that
 ML>> indicated that rats lived quite a bit longer when forced
 ML>> to fast one or two days a week. Of course, the standard
 ML>> objection to that idea was that very few of us are rats.
 NB>> Indeed.  And living longer, for what...?  More experimentation...
 ML> Sometimes I fast for a day or two because of circumstance.
 ML> Whether that improves my life expectancy remains to be unseen.

I'm inclined to doubt that it has much to do with, one way or the
other...  Especially as we aren't rats...

 ML>> was quite well respected, and nowadays, given much the
 ML>> same stance and the same beliefs, I am considered a marginal
 ML>> loony. Their loss.
 NB>> Indeed.
 ML> I perhaps ought to have said "fairly well respected."

In any case, the fleetingness of glory... ;)

ttyl        neb

... Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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