Re: Chimps outsmart college students

In article <47785ff0$0$36391$742ec2ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "James Gassaway" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> peachy a****e passion wrote:
> > Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >
> >> In article <84Edj.34861$NL5.6927@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>  peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> In article <C_zdj.461$jX4.315@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> In article <7vtdj.5353$4m5.83@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>>>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
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> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> In article <xX8dj.3068$NL5.473@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>>>>>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>>> Merrick Baldelli wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:29:05 GMT, peachy a****e passion
> >>>>>>>>>> <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Give us your phone numbers and we'll see if we can't
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> come up with something.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, there's a technique nobody's ever tried on ME
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> before.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> *laughing*  I actually had (404) GET-BENT for a number.  My
> >>>>>>>>>>>> friend Janelle had 333-****.  The calls she used to get at
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 3 in the morning on weekends were priceless.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> It'd be fun except they are all likely to be from underage
> >>>>>>>>>>> males. Bleh!
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Well, now..  But this was back in the 80s, and adults did
> >>>>>>>>>> make such calls more routinely...  Now?  The adults are like
> >>>>>>>>>> the kids and trying to find a mark on the Internet.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>  ROFL - I don't think I knew adults ever made those calls.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> A friend of mine's older brother moved to Germany as an adult
> >>>>>>>> in the 70s, to make a bunch of money, and he and his roommate
> >>>>>>>> used to have parties where everybody would get sh*tfaced and
> >>>>>>>> dial the prefix for Japan and then start punching buttons
> >>>>>>>> until they'd hear a voice on the other end of the line going
> >>>>>>>> 'herro herro herro' and laugh hysterically, hang up, repeat,
> >>>>>>>> and the next month wonder why they'd get $500 phone bills.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>   That's just... well, seriously pathetic.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I thought so.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The Catholic church damned him and sent him to Hell, although
> >>>>>> not for that.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   er.  I'm sorry he's died.  Are you sure he went to hell?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Or did they send him to Darfur?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, here's the deal.
> >>>>
> >>>> He went to Germany (not intending to stay) to make a bunch of
> >>>> money. Apparently at the time you filled out a form with your work
> >>>> permits as to your religion and who you were going to tithe too. He

> >>>> wrote 'none' This didn't sit well with the powers that be, so they 
> >>>> started
> >>>> investigating him.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then they sent some flunky to tell him that the found out he was a
> >>>> Catholic in the USA, so he had to give the German Catholic church
> >>>> money. He laughed.
> >>>>
> >>>> They sent increasingly higher and higher ups after him, finally
> >>>> getting to some ridiculous level like a Bishop (for Monty Python
> >>>> fans:  "It's the Bishop!!")
> >>>>
> >>>> He told the guy that as far as he was concerned, the US Catholic
> >>>> church and the German Catholic church were 2 different religions,
> >>>> and the German Catholic church wasn't getting a dime.
> >>>>
> >>>> The German Catholic church excommunicated and damned him.  But
> >>>> here's the catch:  It didn't come from the Vatican.  They did it
> >>>> at a local level.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, if he were to get over the border before he breathed his last
> >>>> breath, he was okay.  But if he were to die within Germany, he went
> >>>> straight to Hell.
> >>>>
> >>>> He didn't make it over the border in time.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>    I see.
> >>>
> >>>  goodness, religion can be complex.
> >>
> >>
> >> It does make you wonder how anyone can do anything but point at the
> >> Pope and laugh.
> >>
> >
> >   Not me.  I've known much funnier religions.
> 
> "If you pay us $10,000 we'll show you how to pay us $100,000 to get the 
> aliens out of your head!"

Worse than that, it obviously doesn't work.

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