aspasia wrote in :

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:54:54 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

aspasia wrote:
On 17 Oct 2006 11:19:49 -0700, wrote:

I saw that and could not believe what I was reading. Probably some
congressman's relative got the contract.

Here they had a new apartment complex for poor people (projects)
and they had to take out the garbage disposals cause people were
too stupid to use them properly.

I'm not familiar with the situation you SAY you know about? Or just
"HEARD" about?

If, indeed, there's any substance to this story, It would have been
much cheaper to send in a skilled people-person to explain the
garbage disposals. The tenants would have been happy to use them,
once they understood.

Do you KNOW the tenants would have been capable of understanding the
purpose of a garbage disposal or happy to use them, or are you just
guessing?

Dunno about the referenced story but Emerson Electric is suing NBC for
displaying an "InSinkErator" disposal in the latest episode of "Heros"
that showed a mangled hand, so evidently there is the possiblity for
misunderstanding the function of a disposal.

I bet they picked that up from a great little movie called "Mother,
Jugs and Speed". About a Mom & Pop ambulance company.
Scene where the techs are trying to free woman's hand caught in
disposal.

They used to call this "Product Placement."

http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/17/comm...version=200610
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a great little movie called "Mother,
Jugs and Speed".

Holy crap! That is an oldie. I could Google it but I'm offline. If I
recall, Raquel Welsh was Jugs. A black guy, Prior maybe?, was Mother. 3rd
escapes me totally.