Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00851)

silva_cass wrote:
> Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
> Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
> Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
>
> And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you 
> said YES, you just killed Beethoven.
Which goes to show that if you pass out carefully edited and not 
entirely correct information, you can make things appear as they are not.

> Never be afraid to try something new.
> Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.
> Professionals...built the Titanic
How do you know that amateurs built the ark, if it even existed?

> And Finally, can you imagine working for a company that has a little 
> more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
> * 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
> * 7 have been arrested for fraud
> * 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
> * 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
> * 3 have done time for assault
> * 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
> * 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
> * 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
>
> * 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
> * 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...
> Can you guess which organization this is?
> Give up yet?
> It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group
> that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the 
> rest of us in line.
Let's see now. If you eliminate the accusations that have been shown to 
be unfounded, can you name the members of Congress that fit the bill?

Bart