On May 29, 6:51 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > On May 29, 3:45 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> The 2-Belo wrote:
> >>> Here ve see an enraged zhangyo...@gmail.com locked in a life-or-death struggle
> >>> with ze fj.life.in-japan:
> >>>> On May 25, 12:57 am, serginho1961 <samatto...@superig.com.br> wrote:
> >>>>> LET'S GROW RICE !
> >>>>>http://www.aluara-lalila-lalu.com/ric.html
> >>>> Why do you want to grow rice?
> >>> Everybody knows the real money right now is in wheat.
> >> Not any more.  Corn gets you better kickbacks and subsidies due to that
> >> biofuel law thing.
>
> Let's handle this in two parts:
>
> > The biofuel thingee is a woftam.
>
> ... which appears to be the Antipodean word for "boondoggle."

I'd never heard of boondoggle. It sounds so polite. I put woftam into
google and got
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WOFTAM
Though I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim the F stood for
"freakin"

> The thing is, Mitsui and Archer Daniels Midland had to buy off a lot of
> politicians in several major countries to get those subsidies and it
> seems as though we're belittling their efforts when we apply such
> simplistic terms to blatant endemic corruption.
>
> And none of _those_ politicians will have the decency to hang
> themselves, I'll bet.

Imagine if Toshikatsu Matsuoka had hung himself due to policy failures
instead.

> > The only thing corn is good for is decorating pizza.
>
> Put corn on _MY_ pizza and die.

If you pay a little extra for the hassle involved, I'll instruct the
chef to take it off.