humanly raised family farm meats

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/29/2010 02:48 PM, Rick Barr wrote:
>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.

Not a typo, I think, but a genuine mistake.  A mere typo would not
have interested me.

Joel


>-- Rick
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>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.
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> > 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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> > > Bill Palmer
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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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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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