Sigh.... I had hoped this list would avoid toilet humor...sadly I was mistaken..... Mark -----Original Message----- From: Casey Rousseau [mailto:casey at trinityhartford.org] Sent: 15 October 2002 13:48 To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: RE: Questions about genealogy & stuff Matthew Hunter wrote: > Now, it seems to me that if you had paid attention to the irritating, > always-underfoot, and yapping behaviors in a timely fashion, you would > have fewer issues with the floor being peed upon. But that's just me. > > (And let this example state a clear and compelling case *against* a > command economy! The invisible hand of the market will allocate its > waste-disposal resources more efficiently without the interference of > a communal gatekeeper whose excretory needs are not closely tied to > the other individuals in his community! Thus proven, ladies and > gentlefolk: Communism results in a pile of crap.) Ah, but Matthew your argument presumes that the communal gatekeeper does not have the same excretory needs as other individuals in his community. I must conclude that you have no young children or you could not have missed that best-selling masterpiece of toddler non-fiction _Everyone Poops_. > There, that should be inflammatory enough to draw a response. For inflammatory, you should read _The Gas We Pass_, which came up as a companion offer when I looked up _Everyone Poops_ on Amazon. Casey