Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:09:06 -0500 From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Happy whatever... Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> An' in keeping with th' spirit of the solstice.... Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou? Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo! - Pogo, of course, by Walt Kelly mark -- Is there anybody out there willing to stand up - on this, of all days - and raise a toast to the wilful destruction of our manufacturing industry and its replacement by the financial services sector? Yes, there were unions who were resistant to change, but whoever came up with the idea that the solution to this problem was to import cars rather than make them ourselves sacrificed more than just the entire engineering skills base. - Billy Bragg, in the Guardian, 7 Mar. 2009