From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 16:59:23 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 01:21 PM 5/22/02 +0200, KPJ wrote:
>
> >|I started to write "petty bourgeois," but was afraid someone on this list
> >|was going to accuse me of having collectivist leanings. (I'm joking! I'm
> >|joking! No one on this list would do such a thing! ...)
>
> >Of course not. Petty BORGeois, on the other hand...
>
> This is a wonderful quip! I can see it now: the Borg and the Ferengi
> running a joint cupcake-stand on Deep Space Nineteen, seizing customers and
> shaking `contributions' from hapless bypassers (`Resistance to our sales
> pitch is futile!') before going home and pulling on their comfy slippers
> and settling in to a nice evening's viewing of `Anya: the Vampire Seller'.
Didn't you know that they already do that here on earth? They founded
the Starbucks coffee chain to keep the workers of the world dazed and
submissive to their plans to create a global collective... the
'assimilation' is the act of caffiene injection.... ;)
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