[TheForge] Oh, Jeeze...California Considers Table Saw Law
terry l. ridder
terrylr at blauedonau.com
Thu Mar 29 13:24:22 EDT 2012
hello mike;
you have a definite knack for hitting the nail right on the head.
;-)
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Mike Spencer wrote:
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> In YADATROT [1] I'm reminded of the occasions when some hospital
> support group decides to have an art auction and solicits donations of
> original works from artists. The proceeds from the auction are to go
> to buy a new MRI scanner, digital proctoscope or the like.
>
> They laughed at me when when I said, "Doctors have six-figure incomes,
> you folks in the Ladies' Aid Society are married to lawyers, business
> owners and executives with even higher incomes. This is all bass
> ackwards. How about you get the physicians, surgeons and hospitals to
> donate nose jobs, breast enhancements, chits good for private hospital
> rooms with room service or life-long homecare that can be redeemed as
> needed. Auction them off and donate the proceeds to starving artists
> who dress in rags, live in hovels and eat canned beans so that they
> can buy high-quality paints, Beverly shears, propane for their glass
> furnaces or the like."
>
> Oh, well. It was an idea.
>
> - Mike
>
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terry l. ridder ><>
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