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Title: D'Oh!
Post by: rpm on February 28, 2004, 04:49:54 AM

From AP Wire story. (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/8060719.htm)

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Smith & Wesson's parent company named a new chairman Friday to replace James Joseph Minder, who resigned after it was revealed that he had been convicted of a string of armed robberies and a prison escape in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Title: D'Oh!
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on February 28, 2004, 04:52:01 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3495304.stm

We sell guns and our boss used to rob banks!!!

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: straffo on February 28, 2004, 07:17:38 AM

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3495304.stm

We sell guns and our boss used to rob banks!!!

Not really, he was testing the gun in real :)

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: lazs2 on February 28, 2004, 09:23:43 AM

smith and wesson has had a tough time... Used to be a family owned buiseness and then they sold it to a bunch of limeys who tried to run a firearms co while at the same time hating firearms and appeasing anti gun nut groups..

workers bout the allmost bankrupt and now hated (by everyone including gun owners) co.

They have had their problems but I am trying to figure out what it is exactly about being a bank robber in the 50's would make you less qualified to run a co.  Didn't he do all his time?

lazs

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: Mini D on February 28, 2004, 09:29:03 AM

I gotta agree with you Lazs.  Seems this is more a success story and proof that the prison system can do some good occasionally.  Initially, when I read the title, I thought that he was still an escapee... but it turns out he served all his time, then ran a youth home for 20 years before retiring.  It's a good thing we can just chose one period of a man's life to define him vrs what is known about the man today.

MiniD

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: Ripsnort on February 28, 2004, 09:37:51 AM

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Originally posted by Mini D
It's a good thing we can just chose one period of a man's life to define him vrs what is known about the man today.

MiniD

:lol

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: rpm on February 28, 2004, 10:03:00 AM

Good point. We have a reformed cokehead alchoholic as President.
I'm surprised nobody made the Springfield connection. C'mon....that's funny.

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: lazs2 on February 28, 2004, 10:08:01 AM

I think most made the conection but didn't think it applied.

lazs

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: Ripsnort on February 28, 2004, 10:10:05 AM

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Originally posted by rpm371
Good point. We have a reformed cokehead alchoholic as President.
I'm surprised nobody made the Springfield connection. C'mon....that's funny.

Unfortunately, not all presidents can be reformed. We recently had a rapist in office for 8 years.

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: midnight Target on February 28, 2004, 10:40:51 AM

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Unfortunately, not all presidents can be reformed. We recently had a rapist in office for 8 years.

8 years? Reagan was a rapist?

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: mietla on February 28, 2004, 11:24:18 AM

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Originally posted by midnight Target
8 years? Reagan was a rapist?

You can always count on MT

Title: D'Oh!
Post by: midnight Target on February 28, 2004, 11:30:25 AM

Thanks Meitla. I try.

You can also always count on someone to stretch the truth about Clinton.