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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!ajd
  2. From: ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  4. Subject: Re: George Bush
  5. Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:34:18 GMT
  6. Organization: damned straight finchhaus
  7. Lines: 52
  8. Message-ID: <1dbetqINNspb@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov4.164949.28103@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov4.164949.28103@asuvax.eas.asu.edu> ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra) writes:
  13. >     During the election four years ago,  George
  14. >Bush said, "In four years, you're going to be
  15. >a lot better off than you are today."
  16. >     I'll be damned, the mealy-mouthed bastard
  17. >was right after all.
  18. >     Don't let the door hit your ass on the way
  19. >out, shithead.
  20.  
  21. AjD FOUR YEARS AGO AND TODAY
  22.  
  23. 1988                                    1992
  24. WORSE                                   BETTER
  25.  
  26. worked temp agency jobs                 works for a newspaper
  27.  
  28. had three roommates in a                has two roommates in a two-story
  29. 2nd story apartment                     house
  30.  
  31. drank beer                              makes beer
  32.  
  33. 1988                                    1992
  34. BETTER                                  WORSE
  35.  
  36. made more money                         makes less money
  37.  
  38. owed $1,400, mostly to faceless,        owes $5,000, mostly to roommates
  39. anonymous corporations
  40.  
  41. lived a mere fifteen-minute             lives a mere eighteen-hour drive
  42. walk from harvard square and            from harvard square and all of
  43. subway rides to all of boston           boston, and has to find a parking
  44.                                         place
  45.  
  46. paid for email access                   has free usenet access
  47.  
  48. 1988                                    1992
  49. WORSE                                   BETTER
  50.  
  51. didn't vote, conservative               voted, conservative democrat won
  52. republican won on a platform            on a platform of interminable
  53. of sleight-of-hand and fraud            numbers of plans and programs and
  54.                                         almost insufferable charisma
  55.  
  56. no finches                              lots of finches
  57.  
  58. AjD
  59. anybody want
  60. finches?
  61. -- 
  62.                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
  63. "The drazy hoops, the drazy hoops! It's the blimp! The blimp!" -- DvV
  64.