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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Fri Apr 8 04:42:05 1994
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 04:41:17 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
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abbe (Abbe J Cohen):
Studlier wheels that don't wobble.
Happily mounted to the splufty motors.
Happily mounted to a piece of masonite that's .5 cm smaller.
It drives straight, usually.
but the walls are fixed now, and mounted to the base.
Electrical connections neatly soldered, and long enough to reach
the electrical umbilical.
Geek Code:
GE/CS/S/O d- -p+ c+++@ l u++@ e+ m++@(---) s---/ n+(---) h+@ f+ !g
w++ t--- r+@ x++(**)
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adwright (Andy Wright):
{from system: This user's .plan file is not world-readable}
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belville (Sharon Belville):
Madlibs! W/o knowing the text, I produced....
Writing a Thesis
Writing a thesis is a very BRIGHT task. You stay up for 3 1/2 hours and then
you sleep for 42 hours. You BICYCLE, you EDIT and then you TEACH.
If your HEAVY thesis advisor is a BYTE, then you will have to SPLIT your
thesis, or at least pray to the GRAPHIC COWS of Thesis.
With any luck, after 512 years, you will have a CRUNCHY thesis. Either that,
or you will be kicked out to live in the SHADOW where you will be forced to
work as a TECHNICAL WRITER.
The end
My Interview
Today I had an interview with AT&T. It was really pretty REAL, because this
was only my 2ND interview.
I wore a SWEET BELT, and specially INVITED my hair just for today. But it
didn't matter, because everyone at the company wore LAZY clothing.
I suppose I shouldn't have brought up the topic of HEADACHES, but I did. From
there on, things got really HANDSOME. They asked me all about my CALENDAR, and
also about my QUICHE. I nearly LOVED.
It didn't help that they kept GOSSIPING. I still don't know if they'll
MANIPULATE me or not. I guess I'll just have to keep SHREDDING.
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bierce (Jonathan Charles Bierce):
So, How about that Human Soul...?
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brlewis (Bruce R. Lewis):
I'm getting married on Saturday, April 9, and will be out of the office
starting the afternoon of April 8, returning April 28.
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Article 494 of clari.feature.mike_royko:
Message-ID: <S69d.de8@clarinet.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 17:28:24 EDT
Subject: Clintons lived high on the hog for '80s
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As the President has often said, he was a lowly-paid
governor during the evil Decade of Greed that he detests so much.
And his lawyer wife was so busy helping the needy, she sacrificed
income while money-grubbers were snatching the easy buck.
This has been a theme of the Clintons since he ran for
president -- that while others were on a 1980s profit binge, they
were living a modest life on modest incomes and devoting
themselves to public service down home in Arkansas.
That's why Clinton had the moral stature to verbally spank
those whose taxes he raised, on the grounds that they became
bloated during the Greed Decade and should now be punished.
And if you look at the Clintons' tax returns, there
appears to be truth in what Clinton says.
For example, in his first year as governor (1979), he was
paid only $30,100. Arkansas is a small state, with fewer people
than the city of Chicago, but $30,100 to be a governor? That's
what a pothole filler makes in Chicago.
That year, Hillary was with Arkansas' most powerful law
firm. That sounds impressive, but as a lawyer, she made only
$38,614. Why, a good paralegal can make more.
True, that was a year when she made about $73,000
speculating on beef prices. And another $10,000 in consulting and
speaking fees.
But even with that, the Clintons' total income was only
$158,495. Not a mind-blowing figure for two bright Yale lawyers.
And all during the profiteering '80s, that's the way it
went, with Bill scraping by on a governor's salary of less than
$40,000, while Hillary helped the weak and the downtrodden.
The only thing wrong with this heartwarming scenario is
that it's a lot of bunk.
While they weren't hustling on Wall Street all through the
'80s, the Clintons were doing better than about 95 percent of the
population.
The key to understanding why it is bunk is something
called the consumer price index, which compares the value of a
buck in one year to the value in another year.
For example, I might tell someone that my first newspaper
job paid $50 a week. Wow. And my working wife made only $50 a
week. Double wow. How did we get by on $100 a week?
Simple. It had the buying power of about $500 a week in
1994 dollars, so we didn't starve.
Using the price index, we find that in 1979 the Clintons
made about $320,000 in today's dollars. Not bad for a couple in
their early 30s.
But that was only part of it. Living in the governor's
mansion, they had no housing costs. Plus, they had servants,
drivers and a hefty expense fund.
So they were probably making the equivalent of $400,000-
plus in Arkansas, which had one of the country's lowest costs of
living. In New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, they would have had
to pull in at least $600,000 for the same comforts.
Clinton keeps talking about how little he was paid as
governor. But in 1979, there were at least 20 other governors
making $40,000 or less -- most in states bigger than Arkansas.
The fact is his 1979 salary was equal to about $70,000 in
today's dollars. Toss in the mansion, expense account, domestic
help, etc., and most people wouldn't think it was a pauper's deal.
Since the Clintons have made the '80s the evil hustlers
decade, let's look at how they did between 1979 and 1990 -- in
today's bucks.
Starting with 1979 and the $320,000, it went this way:
$156,000, $170,000, $138,000, $183,000, $157,000, $140,000,
$197,000, $214,000, $238,000, $234,000, $301,000.
And you can add another $50,000 to $100,000 a year for
most of those years for the free mansion, domestic help, free
meals, golf, expense account and so on. All that in Arkansas,
where many people retire because it costs so much less to live.
So here we have two yuppies living high on the hog during
their 30s and early 40s, making the kind of money that they now
describe as defining someone as "rich."
With side benefits, I might add, that most people don't
enjoy. Such as the investment tip given to Hillary by an executive
in a state-regulated poultry corporation, the tip that earned her
$100,000 (about $220,000 in today's money) on an investment of
$1,000 (about $2,200 in today's money).
Am I being critical of the Clintons' earnings? I hope not,
because I didn't intend to. It was never my ambition to be poor.
So how can I object to anyone making an honest dollar? (I assume
Hillary's lucrative investment tip was done out of the tipster's
goodness of heart.)
But I do have some difficulty understanding how a couple
of yups can demonize the Decade of Greed when they did so well
during that same decade. Go back and check your tax returns for
those years and see if you were raking it in on the Clintons'
scale.
Now, the Clintons are vacationing on the California coast,
using the freebie home of a rich guy whose campaign contributions
bought an ambassadorship.
For a couple of greed-hating do-gooders, the Clintons have
always known a good deal when they saw it.
(C) 1994 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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sgw (stephen g. wadlow):
Oh Elizabeth, would you come down
with your wood guitar now
Oh please play for me.
Lay your hands upon those strings, wood guitar, wood guitar
I wish that you could play for me,
I wish that I could fall asleep.
"Wood Guitar"
by Poi Dog Pondering
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