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		<title>Comment on Boo. Hiss by Amanda from Michigan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amanda from Michigan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again, thanks for the RSS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again, thanks for the RSS!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Testing the new RSS feed idea by Julie</title>
		<link>http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=10142&#038;cpage=1#comment-96238</link>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it showed up in Google Reader. Ya done somethin&#039; right! ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it showed up in Google Reader. Ya done somethin&#8217; right! <img src='http://lileks.com/bleat/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by shesnailie</title>
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		<dc:creator>shesnailie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>_@_v - don&#039;t be making a forward pass at me! i know when they were invented!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>_@_v &#8211; don&#8217;t be making a forward pass at me! i know when they were invented!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stop razzing me, you sack-o&#039;-sauce-in-a-can-o&#039;-meat.  I&#039;ll take my garter and give you such a snap!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stop razzing me, you sack-o&#8217;-sauce-in-a-can-o&#8217;-meat.  I&#8217;ll take my garter and give you such a snap!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by shesnailie</title>
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		<dc:creator>shesnailie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>_@_v - DORIS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>_@_v &#8211; DORIS!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LAST!!!!
(Take that, ExGeeEye...)</description>
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(Take that, ExGeeEye&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by swschrad</title>
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		<dc:creator>swschrad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nah.  those cynical horsetraders are not going to march on middle America and start flipping burgers.  they&#039;ll buy gold and sell forex futures and become service advisors at shady car dealerships who say nothing is wrong when it is under warranty, and sell you $4500 worth of service the day it falls out of warranty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nah.  those cynical horsetraders are not going to march on middle America and start flipping burgers.  they&#8217;ll buy gold and sell forex futures and become service advisors at shady car dealerships who say nothing is wrong when it is under warranty, and sell you $4500 worth of service the day it falls out of warranty.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by shesnailie</title>
		<link>http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=10137&#038;cpage=1#comment-96197</link>
		<dc:creator>shesnailie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>_@_v - something to cheese al fenderbender...

Transcript of flyer purportedly dropped on Chicago Occupants by Chicago Trader(s) 

We are Wall Street. It&#039;s our job to make money. Whether it&#039;s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn&#039;t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn&#039;t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone&#039;s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I&#039;ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas. 

Well now the market crapped out, &amp; even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are. 

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you&#039;re only going to hurt yourselves. What&#039;s going to happen when we can&#039;t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We&#039;re going to take yours. We get up at 5am &amp; work till 10pm or later. We&#039;re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don&#039;t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don&#039;t demand a union. We don&#039;t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we&#039;ll eat that. 

For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We&#039;re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I&#039;ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much. 

So now that we&#039;re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we&#039;re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren&#039;t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We&#039;re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours. 

The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it&#039;s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom. 

We aren&#039;t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama &amp; his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply...will he? and will they?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>_@_v &#8211; something to cheese al fenderbender&#8230;</p>
<p>Transcript of flyer purportedly dropped on Chicago Occupants by Chicago Trader(s) </p>
<p>We are Wall Street. It&#8217;s our job to make money. Whether it&#8217;s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn&#8217;t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn&#8217;t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone&#8217;s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I&#8217;ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas. </p>
<p>Well now the market crapped out, &amp; even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are. </p>
<p>Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you&#8217;re only going to hurt yourselves. What&#8217;s going to happen when we can&#8217;t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We&#8217;re going to take yours. We get up at 5am &amp; work till 10pm or later. We&#8217;re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don&#8217;t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don&#8217;t demand a union. We don&#8217;t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we&#8217;ll eat that. </p>
<p>For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We&#8217;re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I&#8217;ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much. </p>
<p>So now that we&#8217;re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we&#8217;re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren&#8217;t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We&#8217;re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours. </p>
<p>The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it&#8217;s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom. </p>
<p>We aren&#8217;t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama &amp; his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply&#8230;will he? and will they?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Autobots and Bruckner by Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</title>
		<link>http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=10137&#038;cpage=1#comment-96185</link>
		<dc:creator>Wagner von Drupen- Sachs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the funniest Ernie Kovacks routine I ever saw was him explaining what the various controls on the TV were for.  That famous pic of him with the slanted mouth was, I believe, horizontal hold.  I tried to find the bit on youtube but couldn&#039;t root it out.  Anybody know it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the funniest Ernie Kovacks routine I ever saw was him explaining what the various controls on the TV were for.  That famous pic of him with the slanted mouth was, I believe, horizontal hold.  I tried to find the bit on youtube but couldn&#8217;t root it out.  Anybody know it?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Forward to the Past by Ross</title>
		<link>http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=10128&#038;cpage=2#comment-96066</link>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, well that makes much more sense(esp given the comically vicious attitude of the characters toward each other).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, well that makes much more sense(esp given the comically vicious attitude of the characters toward each other).</p>
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