Re: (IRAQ) Oil

From: hubert mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 11:48:39 MST

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    gts said:

    > Here in the US we have a saying (maybe you have the same saying).
    >
    > "No sense crying over spilt milk."

    At least in Northern Germany where I live I have not heard sayings where
    milk is involved.
    We say Shit is steaming, or the child has fallen into the well. But this
    proverb leaves no option to go to well and look if the child is still well.
    Funny, now that I think about it. The child is left there in the well. No
    one has a second look. The elders must have dug pretty deep to find water to
    come to the final conclusion that looking for the child is no use. Pretty
    damned resigning to one's fate, I must say...

    What are you doing with your spilled milk in the US.? Trying to save the
    carpet? or - the utilitarian perspective - yelling for the cat? As far as I
    can see, spilled milk is somewhat easy to live with while children at the
    bottom of a deep well...well....



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