So Dennis Miller's TV show on CNBC got cancelled yesterday. No big news there: CNBC's primetime is a disaster rivaling the Hindenburg at this point. Where's John McEnroe when you need him?
What's interesting is the classy way the staff heard about it, as evidenced by this funny and sad deconstruction of the weaselly email that NBC sent out. It's a classic of the form. Congratulations, NBC! I'm sure Jim Cramer's the answer to all your problems.
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May 13, 2005 at 1:08pm by Dan Seidman
This is exactly the kind of work environment that creates problems like this...
Laid-Off Zoologist Goes On Tranquilizing Rampage
SAN DIEGO—Twelve San Diego Zoo visitors and two employees were brutally sedated Monday, when laid-off zoologist Dr. Brian Vermeer, 41, returned to his former place of work armed with a tranquilizer gun and began firing into a crowd. "It was kind of horrible," said Maria Christopher, 44, who witnessed the tranquilizing spree. "People were gently falling asleep over the course of 20 to 30 seconds everywhere." The spree ended when Vermeer turned his gun on himself, knocking himself out for half an hour.
(uh, that's from theonion.com)
June 7, 2005 at 4:48pm by Dennis Brennan
Corporate Speak - why, God, why?
Today I was sent a memo from my company's "Behavioral Differentiation team" which encourages people to change their voicemails in order to adhere to a "Customer First" initiative. Behavioral Differentiation? People actually get paid big money to come up with these stupid meaningless titles. I think I'm going to come up with my own department, and I will call it the Morphosyntactical Disambiguation Coalition - A team which would help fight the spread of unclear meanings due to unnecessarily big words. Or perhaps I should call it the Concilliabule against Parisologistic Lexiphanicism - Secret meeting of people hatching a plot against the use of ambiguous language to show off. Who's with me?