Running Out Of Tang...
I am certain that there are dozens of comedians this weekend poking fun at the plight of the astronauts who are running out of food in the International Space Station. TANG references no doubt abound.
As a comedian myself, I am reading the story looking for an angle that is both humorous and appropriate. These folks are hurtling through space without enough to eat. Earth, and it's myriad food choices, illuminated below.
I do note that each astronaut gets to pick favorite foods before leaving for space, and that they are currently waiting for a cargo ship to bring groceries. I don't know which is harder to get my hands around, the fact that packets of food are considered fresh groceries or that one of the astronauts selected jellied pike perch, in a packet, as a food they couldn't live in space without.
As a comedian myself, I am reading the story looking for an angle that is both humorous and appropriate. These folks are hurtling through space without enough to eat. Earth, and it's myriad food choices, illuminated below.
I do note that each astronaut gets to pick favorite foods before leaving for space, and that they are currently waiting for a cargo ship to bring groceries. I don't know which is harder to get my hands around, the fact that packets of food are considered fresh groceries or that one of the astronauts selected jellied pike perch, in a packet, as a food they couldn't live in space without.
posted by Jamie at 1:20 AM
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Voodoo Enronomics
Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
Communism: You have two cows. You must take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
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