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   > George,   
   >> Too much of any drug/medication is rough on the old liver (which   
   >> filters all  the chemical crap out of our blood, whatever the kidneys   
   >> can't handle, anyway)   
   > "I want my pizza delivered".   
   > Whoever heard of liver on a pizza??    
      
   Not me! I can't even stand SEEING it in the grocery!   
      
   Ugh -- horrible memories of our once or twice a year liver meal -- so   
   grateful  we can now get our vitamin A in other foods &/or supplements.   
      
   I would find a way to thicken ketchup (mix with mashed taties) & stack it an    
   inch deep on top of a tiny(~2cm^2) cut-off bite of liver & attemnpt to   
   swallow  that ewntire bite whole -- never worked, I had to chew & spread that   
   HORRIBLE  taste throughout my poor young mouth. . .   
      
   Now I refuse to eat liver or kidneys -- as I know exactly what they do in the    
   body of a mammal & if the cow saw fit to get rid of that crap, why would I   
   want to eat it?!   
      
   You eat liver? That's OFFAL!!!   
      
   >> I'm with Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson(2 of my fave authors(the   
   >> former  RIP in '88): "A blessing shared is doubled and a sorrow shared   
   >> is halved."   
   > Heinlein also said TANSTAFFL...and he was right on target. Nothing is   
   > totally free...it cost the giver something.   
      
   Yup, TANSTAFL is one of my faves of his contributions to our language - that   
   &  "grok".. . (to truly understand & internalize knowledge)   
      
   > Yet, all these bleeding heart liberals can't understand or comprehend   
   > that when there is no one left to provide funds, etc. for "the free stuff",   
   > what are they going to do?? They don't have an answer for that...just a   
   > horrified look on their face.   
      
   I'm in Canada -- where free handouts are the way of life for half the    
   ppoulation (think California, just colder)   
      
   I've had my share over theyears & cuirrently receive a disability cheque    
   montgly that isn't paid for by any contribution to a pension or insurance   
   plan  I did. . .it's paid for by the hardworking taxpayers of this province    
   (including me) & I don't accept it as a free ift -- I accept it for what it   
   was intended -- help up for those who need it, & I accept it as a debt upon   
   myself, thus I put in many hours/week of volunteer work for my community &   
   province.   
      
   I was raised on TANSTAAFL, but not by that name. . .   
      
   > Yet, death is the great equalizer.   
      
   meme: "No matter what you did in life, how rich & powerful you were, in   
   death,  all our graves are the same size."   
   2: Photo of the Great Pyranmid of Giza & a pharaoh captioned saying: "Speak   
   for yourself, peasant!"   
      
   I defy you to find a graveyard that doesn't have humungous mausoleums here &    
   there, some incredibly ornate -- all pointless, of course, as the   
   builder/owner is utterly GONE!   
      
   Like the rtich guy talking with St. Peter, who didn't have him on the lisd to    
   enter Heaven, as his life was filled with greed & glutony & no generrosit or    
   kindness. . .   
      
   "That's not true, " Mr. Moneybags exclaimed, "You can't say never -- why just    
   lat month, I dropped a quarter into a blind beggar's cup!"   
      
   Peter said, "Okay, I'll have to discuss this with the Boss.  Hang on. . ."   
      
   Peter heads upstairs into God's chamber & explains what the record says & wha    
   the guy's protest was.   
      
   God pulled up the life reel on the big screen ion the wall oppopsitek to   
   vieew  the incident & sure enoughm, the old Scrooge, dug down past a pocketful   
   of $2-0 nbilld to find a quarter lodged in the corner & grudghingly put it   
   into the  beggar's cup, presumably because he saw the newspaper photographer   
   arcoss the  street.   
      
   God dug into His robes & pulled out a coin, flipped it to Peter & said, "Give    
   him back his two bits & tell him to go to Hell."   
      
   You will know them by their fruits. . .   
      
   Moneybags' fruit was old, dried & mouldy. . .   
      
   I'm not saying God actually acts like this, of course -- it's a JOKE, people   
   -- read the echo name & description before you send your complaints to my   
   recycle  bin!   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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