Daniel Davies wrote:
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> It would, of course, have the implication that what the economy needs
> is for all the shiny new servers and workstations bought by the dot
> bomb company should be stacked up in a pile and torched like so many
> pigs with foot & mouth disease, lest anyone be tempted to use them.
> Which is a rather pleasing image to my mind, though it has been an
> uncommonly tough week.
>
Remember the slaughter of baby pigs & the plowing up of cotton fields in the '30s. And in 1946 or 47 there was lots of media play about piling up potatoes, drenching them with gasoline, & tossing a match.
Carrol