humanly raised family farm meats

[Bill Palmer]

Please someone tell me I'm not the only one on this list who has no idea
what that means.

Bill Palmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: humanly raised family farm meats


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> And I meant to say, "interaction-interface wetware."  Sorry.
>
> JL
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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rick Barr <rickbarremail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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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.
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
>> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net
>> > >wrote:
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>> > > Subject:      Re: humanly raised family farm meats
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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.
>> > >
>> > > Bill Palmer
>> > >
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>> > > From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> > > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> > > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 12:05 PM
>> > > Subject: humanly raised family farm meats
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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".
>> > > >
>> > > > I prefer meats raised by extraterrestrial humanoids myself.
>> > > >
>> > > > Joel
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