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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Uh huh. I see. O.k., now explain why it is that when the price of oil
skyrocketed up to about $50 a barrel I paid a measly $3.59 for a gallon of
gas, and recently, when the price of oil plummeted to a pitiful $100 per
barrel, I was raped to the tune of $2.83 for the gas.

Wolfgang
who just LOVES these little exercises in the intricacies of
real-ekonomiks!

Uh , maybe because you buy gasoline rather than crude oil. The price of
crude oil is only one of the (and rarely the major) factors affecting the
price you pay at the pump for gasoline.

Bob Weinberger

"Bob Weinberger" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Uh huh. I see. O.k., now explain why it is that when the price of oil
skyrocketed up to about $50 a barrel I paid a measly $3.59 for a gallon
of gas, and recently, when the price of oil plummeted to a pitiful $100
per barrel, I was raped to the tune of $2.83 for the gas.

Wolfgang
who just LOVES these little exercises in the intricacies of
real-ekonomiks!

Uh , maybe because you buy gasoline rather than crude oil. The price of
crude oil is only one of the (and rarely the major) factors affecting the
price you pay at the pump for gasoline.

Bob Weinberger


Yeah, yeah......I know all that. I just wanted the Southern Mississippi
School of Munny and Stuff's ever-amazing perspective on it.

However, I think you've spoiled any chance we had of getting that this time
around.

Wolfgang
well......there will be other opportunities.....many many of them.

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:00:52 GMT, "Bob Weinberger"
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Uh huh. I see. O.k., now explain why it is that when the price of oil
skyrocketed up to about $50 a barrel I paid a measly $3.59 for a gallon of
gas, and recently, when the price of oil plummeted to a pitiful $100 per
barrel, I was raped to the tune of $2.83 for the gas.

Wolfgang
who just LOVES these little exercises in the intricacies of
real-ekonomiks!

Uh , maybe because you buy gasoline rather than crude oil. The price of
crude oil is only one of the (and rarely the major) factors affecting the
price you pay at the pump for gasoline.

Well, that, and he's a dumbass...a lack of common sense is the major
factor affecting most things he does...

Hee, hee, hee,
R
....but at least I've trained him well...

Bob Weinberger

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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:00:52 GMT, "Bob Weinberger"
wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...

Uh huh. I see. O.k., now explain why it is that when the price of oil
skyrocketed up to about $50 a barrel I paid a measly $3.59 for a gallon
of
gas, and recently, when the price of oil plummeted to a pitiful $100 per
barrel, I was raped to the tune of $2.83 for the gas.

Wolfgang
who just LOVES these little exercises in the intricacies of
real-ekonomiks!

Uh , maybe because you buy gasoline rather than crude oil. The price of
crude oil is only one of the (and rarely the major) factors affecting the
price you pay at the pump for gasoline.

Well, that, and he's a dumbass...a lack of common sense is the major
factor affecting most things he does...

Hee, hee, hee,
R
...but at least I've trained him well...

Every day in every way, I keep getting better and better.

Wolfgang
lifelong learner

wrote:

It will be interesting to see if anyone (eg. the new Kindle) can
breathe life into the e-book reader concept. That market has
floundered for as many years as it has been extant. Although I *do*
know a few people who actually prefer to read on a screen (and in
these cases [three people] the screen is a PDA.) Of course, here we
are talking about books that one would read, not reference materials
or short articles, etc.

I like how you used the word "satisfying". There is something
satisfying about the book as an item, and reading a book as a process,
is there not? However, I would wager that a very large percentage of
the books I have read over the past several years (and an even higher
percentage of articles), I "discovered" by some digital means (reviews
found and read online, through personal contacts made online, etc.)
Even Wolfgang's "Forgotten Treasures" I usually end up digging out the
original, rather than reading on the screen (or printing out.) We are
lucky, no?


Number one seller for Amazon so far this season:

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons.../dp/B000FI73MA

Willi

As to Frank not stepping foot inside the library while studying for
his masters, well, there's a story behind that. He was banned. We
couldn't afford the insurance. :-)

It actually had more to do with surviving on a diet of bean burritos
and egg salad sandwiches. Never knew that book binding glue could
melt so easily.
Frank Reid

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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As to Frank not stepping foot inside the library while studying for
his masters, well, there's a story behind that. He was banned. We
couldn't afford the insurance. :-)

It actually had more to do with surviving on a diet of bean burritos
and egg salad sandwiches.

Thus demonstrating that mere survival is hardly sufficient justification for
staying alive.

Never knew that book binding glue could melt so easily.

Sort of raises some disturbing speculation about how they make the stuff in
the first place, ainna?

Wolfgang

On Dec 4, 8:40 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:
"Frank Reid" wrote in message

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As to Frank not stepping foot inside the library while studying for
his masters, well, there's a story behind that. He was banned. We
couldn't afford the insurance. :-)

It actually had more to do with surviving on a diet of bean burritos
and egg salad sandwiches.

Thus demonstrating that mere survival is hardly sufficient justification for
staying alive.

Never knew that book binding glue could melt so easily.

Sort of raises some disturbing speculation about how they make the stuff in
the first place, ainna?

By the way, my survival was never in doubt. The survival of those
around me however....
Frank Reid
Who believes that a good offense is a great defense.

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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On Dec 4, 8:40 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:
"Frank Reid" wrote in message

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As to Frank not stepping foot inside the library while studying for
his masters, well, there's a story behind that. He was banned. We
couldn't afford the insurance. :-)

It actually had more to do with surviving on a diet of bean burritos
and egg salad sandwiches.

Thus demonstrating that mere survival is hardly sufficient justification
for
staying alive.

Never knew that book binding glue could melt so easily.

Sort of raises some disturbing speculation about how they make the stuff
in
the first place, ainna?

By the way, my survival was never in doubt.

Perhaps the most dubious claim ever put forward in this forum. Ask anybody
who's seen you in action.

The survival of those around me however....
Frank Reid
Who believes that a good offense is a great defense.

Shades of barley stew, eh?

I'm just glad you didn't stoke up on egg salad and bean burritos before
sitting beside the campfire at Fisher's shack in da Yoop. We put a new roof
on it this fall......it would have been a real nuisance to have to put a new
shack under the roof first.

Wolfgang

Willi wrote:
wrote:

It will be interesting to see if anyone (eg. the new Kindle) can
breathe life into the e-book reader concept.

Number one seller for Amazon so far this season:

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons.../dp/B000FI73MA

Willi

Well, "#1 in Kindle Store" (would be surprising if it wasn't...)

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