[arachne] Nuts (was Re: Cell phones... (was Re: The beginningof the end....)

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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:38 -0400, Jason wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Nope.  You guys are just nuts.  I know I'm an expert on nuts.
> 
> Greg Mayman wrote:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:16:50 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I most assuredly hope so!
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> Not one Nobel Prize winner ...
> >> Not one doctor who flies around the world to help kids for free ...
> >> Not one dedicated teacher ...
> >> Not one volunteer at the Free Store ...
> >> Not one person who trains Therapy Dogs ...
> >> Not one person who massages and psychoanalyzes rescued horse ...
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> .... has avoided being called nuts at least once, and usually more often.
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> If our desire and persistence in working to have usable software for
> >> "throw away" computers makes us nuts, we're in pretty good company.
> >>     
> >
> > I agree most emphatically!
> >
> > The criterion for being judged "clever" these days is to have amassed a
> > large personal fortune, usually by ripping off other people.
> >
> > Whereas people whose main activity (as a group anyway) is to work on and
> > refine something that is given away to anyone who wants it are almost
> > certifiably insane by the usual standards of the world.
> >
> > Go, Nuts!

Speaking of being nuts, I saw this quotation printed on a T-shirt, 
one that also had printed on it an image of the face and a facsimile 
of the signature of the person who said it:

"You know, there was a time when being crazy meant something.
Nowadays everybody's crazy."  -- Charles Manson

Sam Heywood

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