X-Message-Number: 31064
From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #31062 - #31063
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:34:57 +1000

> Message #31063
> From: "FlavO Noid" <>
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:57:38 -0500
> Subject: A Short Note About Shameless Self-Promotion
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> "If your life savings...or your life  insurance...is with me, you and I
> will both be fine." says our resident insurance salesman.

Following your helpful remark a few weeks ago about Arizona being in the US, 
I wonder what resident role *you* play here?

> Well, isn't that unsupported statement reassuring.  Here's another
> reassuring one with no proof offered:  "It is probably a good idea to
> remind readers in the US that their life insurance and fixed annuity
> accounts are safe."  He then goes on to describe how that is, which is no
> different from how any other accounts with any other banking or financial
> institutions are "safe".
>
> Don't get me wrong.  Rudi Hoffman helps a lot of people get funded for
> cryonics.  People who are willing for him to make commissions off the
> premiums they pay, because they are too busy or lazy to do the research
> and find better deals themselves.  So his efforts, though sometimes
> portrayed with the flavor of a used car salesman, are in general to be
> appreciated.

This is not entirely fair. You could just as well say that I buy fruit and 
vegetables from my local supermarket because I am too busy or lazy to find a 
farmers' market and cut out all the middle managers who probably never see 
fruit or vegetables (except the ones they themselves eat - if they eat any, 
or course).

> Unlike his short note, this one here actually is.  His could have been
> shorter, sans the 10-line sig.   At least sans some of the more dubious
> items.  Rifles?  If you can't freeze them, shoot them?  Salvation?  If
> you can't freeze or shoot them, pray for them?  Trans... Lib... oh I
> dunno.

I would be obliged to you or anyone else who can explain why some people use 
the French word 'sans' rather than the English word 'without' (unless of 
course they happen to be speaking or writing in French).

As for rifles I gather you share my misgivings even if I don't particularly 
like the way you expressed yours. Rudy is of course entitled to his beliefs 
and affiliations.

I realised some years ago (maybe this is true for everyone when they use the 
Net) that when I meet someone on the Net whom I've never met in person, I 
subconsciously identify that person with some other person whom I *have* 
met, or a character from fiction, or something like that. In your case I 
imagine someone like the character Bluebottle from (the British radio 
comedy) The Goon Show. (I realise you are probably not familiar with the 
reference.) I can't begin to imagine why. 

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