Re: Circuit City Sucks: firing then offering to rehire at lower pay..

Straydog wrote:


On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, BMJ wrote:

Straydog wrote:

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Yeah, but books don't give one bragging rights with the neighbours. I mean, how effective is "*My* edition of Shakespeare is better than *your* edition! Nyah-nyah!!"



Among die-hard collectors, if they had a 400 years old edition, with WS's signature, making it worth $ 25,000, then it would leave YOUR paperback copy in the dust!


Of course, but to the average citizen, that smacks of upper-class snootiness.


There are three options at "come backs" on that:

1. T.S.
2. Eat your heart out
3. High brow beats low brow anyday

Do you actually think that the local bumpkins would be impressed with "highbrow"? Those in my area certainly wouldn't, which is one reason I avoid them.


Besides, books don't have turbo-charged diesel engines and chrome bumpers.


Which, of course, rust and corrode and wear out and become obsolete and worthless, unlike true antiques which become more valuable and priceless with age!

Of course, but an antique book can't be parked in your driveway to show off to the neighbours unless, of course, one happened to live in a community dedicated to the fine arts, the residents of which wouldn't think of leaving their books in their driveways.

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Oh, so you want to make things difficult by making the users think, eh? ;-)


Better to separate the men from the boys, goddesses from the teenie-bopers.

In my neighbourhood, it seems that the "men" are those who holler the most and make the loudest beer belches, confirming that, perhaps, the australophithecenes are still with us.


I guess that's why there's no reality literature like "Survivor: Jane Austen".


The Epic of Gilgamesh (author unknown)

Whoever doesn't finish it get voted off the island?


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