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BrianT on December 20, 2006 - 10:23am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
GWB would be wild as a gambler (or running a hedge fund). The more he loses the more he bets. He reminds me of Bogie in that movie about the strawberries.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121900880_pf.html
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elwoodelmore on December 20, 2006 - 10:45am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
hell i though you were going to link me to a bogie movie   i've seen them all (i think)   but the one about the strawberries     ?  you lost me
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BrianT on December 20, 2006 - 11:05am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Elwood: The strawberries part might be wrong. I think it was called "The Caine Mutiny". He played a chief poobah on a boat who thought they were stealing his strawberries (I think it was strawberries).
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Flakmeister on December 20, 2006 - 12:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
  It was ice cream, might have been strawberry ice cream though... Great flick BTW
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Don Sailorman on December 20, 2006 - 12:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Captain Queeg had earlier (on another ship) solved a mystery involving missing strawberries; he insisted that the same logic would provide the same solution to the missing ice cream; that is why he collected all those keys, working on the theory that somebody had an unauthorized key.

People who believe they can repeat past victories with methods that worked before would be well-advised to look at evidence to see whether the underlying situation has changed. Nothing fails like success.

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Reed on December 20, 2006 - 3:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"Nothing fails like success."
Nice one Sailorman! Is this yours?
A credo for a doomer like me.
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elwoodelmore on December 20, 2006 - 4:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
i think dubya and his neocon handlers were intoxicated" with bush's daddys success
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Don Sailorman on December 20, 2006 - 5:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I don't know who originated "Nothing fails like" success, but I saw it in a Peter Drucker book some thirty years ago.

Another nice variation is:
Nothing fails like excess.

Could be the motto of our wasteful "happy motoring" society in the U.S.

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