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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Radioactivity and Superstition; was: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.150241.16611@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:02:41 GMT
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- In article <betel.715614400@camelot> betel@camelot.bradley.edu (Robert Crawford) writes:
- >de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >>>I stand corrected by John De Armond. I believe his figures, but I'll
- >>>undercut his price. I'll eat as many as Jym Dyer will supply at a mere
- >>>$5k a bulb. See Jym, we capitalists really do compete.
- >>If the threat is as insignificant as you say, why not do it for a nominal fee?
- >>$5000/bulb is awfully high for a threat supposedly on a par with a banana.
- >
- > Regardless of the health threat, there is the fact that it's
- >unpleasant to force feed yourself bits and pieces of light bulbs.
- >However, I am willing to do it for $2.5k...
-
- People (or should I say "fellow capitalist scumbags"?), this
- undercutting is getting out of hand! Pretty soon we will be
- paying for the privledge of eating the disgusting light-bulb bits
- that are RADIOACTIVE!
-
- We must not allow this to happen. I mean, where's the profit in
- that? Following in the foot steps of OPEC and other fine examples,
- I suggest we form the OLEP-TRB (the Organization of Light-bulb Eating
- Persons - The Radioactive Bits). The first action of OLEP-TRB will be
- to fix the price (oops, I mean stablise the market) at $5K per bulb.
-
- Think of the potential! Along with OLEP-GEB (Glass Envelope Bits)
- and OLEP-MM (Misc Metal), we could fully utilize the ingestibiliy ot
- every part of the light-bulb *while* proping up the prices!
-
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