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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-02-16 08:58 pm

Has any modelled

The consequences had US social security been privatized in the early '00s?
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[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
(I wish I knew to whom that joke should be attributed.)

[identity profile] le-trombone.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It was someone's USENET tagline for a while. A quick Google for it says Mike Chary, and he credits Dave Spensley:

"I bought the Star Trek chess set and the Civil War chess set. Now I have the South fight the Klingons." -- Dave Spensley

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[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for that bit of scholarship. I see Mr. Spensley using it in his own sigfile at least as early as 21 August 1994.

I wonder whether people will be retelling any of my jokes seventeen years from now.

P.S. Why must Google Groups be so unreliable?

[identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
The problem with having the South fight the Klingons is, who do you root for? :)

[identity profile] traviswells.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
As a southerner, lemme just say that's an easy question to answer.

Definitely the Klingons.