Comments on: Joe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sej http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes/comment-page-1#comment-35805 sej Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:17:38 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36716#comment-35805 I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: "Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to." I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: “Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to.”

]]> By: sej http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes/comment-page-1#comment-26724 sej Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:17:38 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36716#comment-26724 I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: "Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to." I love the approach Joe takes with the telephone fees thing. I think it's fair to sum it up as this: “Use loopholes to get around the rules everybody else has to play by, and pass it off as if you are doing a favor for all the pissed off people you pander to.”

]]> By: Sue http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes/comment-page-1#comment-24496 Sue Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:16:42 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36716#comment-24496 huh.. looks like he updated his site to remove that whole 'wanting to charge 10 cents, but law makes him charge $2.00 so we should thank our lucky stars that he found a loophole to only charge 99 cents'. huh.. looks like he updated his site to remove that whole 'wanting to charge 10 cents, but law makes him charge $2.00 so we should thank our lucky stars that he found a loophole to only charge 99 cents'.

]]> By: Jon H http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes/comment-page-1#comment-24261 Jon H Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:10:39 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36716#comment-24261 No, <a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011141.html#011141" rel="nofollow">it's more like this</a>:<br><br>"Her legs were quills. They were bundles of wicker, they were candelabra; the muscles were summer lightning, that flickered like a passing thought; they were captured eels or a cable on a windlass. Her thighs were geese, pythons, schooners. They were cypress or banyan; her thighs were a forge, they were shears; her thighs were sandstone, they were the sandstone buttresses of a cathedral, they were silk or cobwebs. Her calves were sweet with the sap of elders, her feet were bleached bones, her feet were driftwood. Her feet were springs, marmosets or locusts; her toes were snails, they were snails with shells of tears." No, it's more like this:

“Her legs were quills. They were bundles of wicker, they were candelabra; the muscles were summer lightning, that flickered like a passing thought; they were captured eels or a cable on a windlass. Her thighs were geese, pythons, schooners. They were cypress or banyan; her thighs were a forge, they were shears; her thighs were sandstone, they were the sandstone buttresses of a cathedral, they were silk or cobwebs. Her calves were sweet with the sap of elders, her feet were bleached bones, her feet were driftwood. Her feet were springs, marmosets or locusts; her toes were snails, they were snails with shells of tears.”

]]> By: Joe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes « Plumber Phoenix http://washingtonindependent.com/36716/joe-the-plumber-and-the-series-of-tubes/comment-page-1#comment-23982 Joe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes « Plumber Phoenix Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:33:23 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36716#comment-23982 [...] Joe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes The Washington Independent - Washington,DC,USA By David Weigel 4/1/09 9:00 AM Reasonable people can differ about how much to cover Samuel ?Joe the Plumber? Wurzelbacher, but the last time I spoke to him, … See all stories on this topic [...] [...] Joe the Plumber and the Series of Tubes The Washington Independent – Washington,DC,USA By David Weigel 4/1/09 9:00 AM Reasonable people can differ about how much to cover Samuel ?Joe the Plumber? Wurzelbacher, but the last time I spoke to him, … See all stories on this topic [...]

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