i'll be sending out both. 

--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Deri,
> 
> GREAT!!  I'll send your version to my liberal
> friends, and both versions to
> my conservative friends!
> 
> On Jan 6, 2008 7:49 PM, Deri James
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Not so funny!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Humans originally existed as members of small
> bands of nomadic
> > hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the
> mountains during the summer
> > and would go to the coast and live on fish and
> lobster in the winter.
> >
> > The two most important events in all of history
> were the invention of beer
> > and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was
> invented to get man to the
> > beer. These were the foundation of modern
> civilization and together were
> > the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into
> two distinct subgroups:
> >
> >
> > 1. Liberals
> > 2. Conservatives.
> >
> > Once beer was discovered, it required grain and
> that was the beginning of
> > agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum
> can were invented yet,
> > so
> > while our early humans were sitting around waiting
> for them to be
> > invented,
> > they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how
> villages were formed.
> >
> > Some men spent their days tracking and killing
> animals to B-B-Q at night
> > while they were drinking beer. Their favourite
> hunting method was to burn
> > the
> > prairie and wait for woolly mamoths to stampede
> off the cliffs. This was
> > the
> > beginning of what is known as the Conservative
> movement.
> >
> > Other men realised that if you cared for the
> environment, looked after
> > your
> > animals, and planted fields, you did not have to
> chase over miles of
> > prairie
> > to kill dangerous animals for food, the food was
> right on your doorstep.
> > This
> > was the start of the Liberal Movement.
> >
> > Although the fierce hunters enjoyed their life, it
> was lonely, days away
> > from
> > their women, having to go further and further to
> find a bit of prairie
> > they
> > hadn't burned. But this was the way their
> forefathers lived - this was
> > "the
> > Conservative way".
> >
> > Meanwhile the liberal farmers soon discovered that
> if they all worked
> > together
> > and cooperated with each other, each specialising
> in things they were good
> > at, they could provide more than enough food for
> the whole community.
> > There
> > was a surplus, they could start to do art, music,
> dance. If one of their
> > community became sick or old, there was enough
> food for them to be looked
> > after. They chose a donkey as a symbol to show
> that even the lowliest &
> > dumbest creature was an important integral part of
> the community.
> >
> > A hunter who became injured or too old to hunt
> lost status, he either had
> > to
> > beg for food, or sacrifice himself as bait to a
> sabre tooth tiger so that
> > the
> > clan could kill the tiger. He would then be
> revered as a "hero".
> >
> > Of course, eventually all the prairie had been
> destroyed and the last
> > woolly
> > mammoth was killed, the proud hunters had to join
> the liberals. You would
> > be
> > wrong if you thought that was the end of the
> Conservatives, no, you can
> > still
> > see them, they're the ones who say "Why should I
> pay taxes to anyone
> > else.", "Right to bear arms", "Survival of the
> fittest",
> > "Clan/family/country
> > comes first - fiddle sticks to the rest.", whilst
> benefitting from a world
> > where only cooperation, altruism, and
> consideration is the only successful
> > pattern for long term survival. Oh, and they still
> hanker after the woolly
> > mammoth, but since they killed them all, the
> elephant is the closest
> > thing.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Deri
> >
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> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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