-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/11 20:45, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote: > > Funny that you are expressing to know what Rob had in mind, you must have > psychic powers!
The phrase "drinka pinta milka day" is an old advertising slogan from the 1950s, when the UK was still a mixed economy and the state milk monopoly was running a promotional campaign. http://www.advertisingarchives.captureweb.co.uk/images/trueimages/30/52/85/38/30528538-1.jpg Comedian Tony Hancock later read the slogan from a poster in an episode of his television sitcom, rendering it absurd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtKjuiMpRk Why did I use that particular quote? Because I know that people like MANIK will pick up on the intended resonances. > I indeed feel the need to lament, as you nicely put it, I even made a nice > lamentation on oud and violin and sung with it, you can hear it here: > > http://burgerwaanzin.nl/sabam2.mp3 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/05/worlds-tiniest-open.html > What the use of FREE INTERNET is, when your neighbours children do not > have MILK to drink is beyond my comprehension. The rich never can imagine what use the tools that afford them their wealth could be to the poor. I once saw an Indian academic at a conference very politely explaining to some English radicals that the knowledge, information and communication that networked computing machinery affords might in fact have some bearing on the life-or-death struggles of poor rural villagers. By the same token, the use of internet access to our neighbour's children is that they can get the knowledge, information and communication they need to ultimately get some milk. - - Rob. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNbs+AAAoJEOqcdhxmxssCHSoIAJlZr2nug/RBi1Fg36IN5jR7 urLRQ7Epz9/AAzkdlC0T8BE7nd1HJULTaEPwht1aIv+MYyy1gm0qPMLw9bZYVYCA 9wzHj61/zd44O4pUg5nmU5wVGZG/5CR8icgW5mYy2+oBwGaIRI7s2gNN48b4JLFV 1w0QQ9Hh/2nC2Ii7558YX8YeFifxSTzsp1F8SWWAIgnqdq0JRS9VhurA16gT7RwT Xb4iT1L5buJf05r1RCBrJD7s/MPg4aSsxvhGVw6tnzkcsMxWpQ/9bw2FLjz1uuiW of85ZCps9VcRNHgQiQEhYiTPpwU/Nr74iEsrSZ3UMii+ChQo7J8hNbksmkFL3mw= =DzRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
