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Must be a time zone thing

-----Original Message-----
From: Emerson, Tom [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:56 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: RE: [HP3000-L] Observation


This is --so-- far off-topic that it's almost funny [actually, it'd kind
of spooky...]

-----Original Message-----
From: James B. Byrne
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:19 PM

[big huge snip...]

Contrast GWB II (mis-)statements on terror ... with this statement from
a previous president ...

> I am certain that my fellow Americans expect [...] so, first of all, 
> let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is 
> fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror [...]

What makes it spooky is the fact that this VERY same day [uhh, that
would be yesterday] I happened to watch a game show that, while I had
seen bits of it before, I had never watched all the way through.  As it
turns out, the GAME WINNING absolute final question of the day was "who
said... the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." 

The show is "Dog eat Dog", which is a part-physical-challenge,
part-mental [trivia] challenge type of show -- sometimes these
challenges are combined [i.e., answering questions while running on a
treadmill 25' above a swimming pool -- every wrong answer and the
treadmill speeds up.  The challenge is to get 10 right answers without
falling off]

Now, I realize that not only was this filmed "some time ago", and in
fact [since it was on the "game show network"], it might have been a
repeat, but I find it intriguing that this list brings to light tidbits
such as this quote with such incredible timing.  I can only wonder if
someone reading this list might pick up an odd item that happens to
"save their bacon" later the same day [for the record, the guy that
answered the question was technically eliminated at the outset, but the
structure of the game is such that at the very end, all the folks that
are "eliminated" have one final shot at taking the prize money from the
"last man standing" (and then split amongst themselves) -- at this point
in the program, the "winner" and the group of "losers" were tied in
points, so this was the absolute tie-breaker...]

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