humanly raised family farm meats

[Rick Barr]

What everybody else has said makes you wonder about humans in the workplace,
but the original post in the thread strikes me as a typo for
*humanely*raised meats, an adverb that has been around for a while
with regard to
raising animals.

-- Rick


On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> How about the Ally Bank commercial (one of a series) in which the greedy
> and
> mendacious developmental psychologist (I guess that's what he is) pretends
> to a little girl that he's the slave of a robotic phone-answering doll that
> looks just like him?
>
> Why shouldn't they charge extra for allowing us access to a human being?
> Human beings are busy people and, in the long run, more expensive than
> robots to keep on the job. It's simple fairness that customers should help
> defray the cost of wetware, especially public-contact wetware.
>
> Not satire, prophecy.
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> JL
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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net
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> > A commercial for one of the persoanl injury law firms around here
> features
> > a
> > testimonial from a woman who says her attorney is not only a lawyer, but
> > also a human being. I wonder if she pays extra for that.
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> > > On a page accessed via the Gloucester Stage web site, the Alchemy
> > > Cafe and Bistro advertises -- or is advertised -- as having "humanly
> > > Raised Family Farm Meats".
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> > > I prefer meats raised by extraterrestrial humanoids myself.
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