 The saying goes that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but Mercer got your wallet at the street corner when he asked you the time.
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Contributed by Tyrone Mercer
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Tuesday, 06 July 2004 (read 1344 times) |
As you may have noticed, my goal with this little excuse to repeal the First Amendment is to help you determine when someone is distracting you with something "shiny, shiny" while they merrily help themselves to the contents of your wallet. Typically I expect the culprit to be one of the usual suspects: government, business, or the media. Imagine my surprise when, after staggering home one night from a glorious victory in a savage round of Saké Saké OhNoNo 1 at the local karaoke bar (sorry Suntori, I play to win), I saw that this turd had flushed its way into my inbox. I had always believed that Michael Moore was on our side in the fight against the shadows and now I had to face the fact that he was involved in the sleaziest and foulest marketing campaign since Microsoft convinced us that Windows would make us more productive.
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Contributed by Tyrone Mercer
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Tuesday, 01 June 2004 (read 1544 times) |
Every once in awhile I take a keen personal interest in the expense
reports my staffers submit for approval. Nothing livens up a dead
afternoon like asking a mid-level manager, with just a few years to go
until retirement, why he felt it necessary to pay for a new vicuna coat
with the R.A. Enterprises AMEX. Since I hold these little interviews
in the presence of my legal samurai Mr. Suntori and a couple of his
litigation ninja I'm usually guaranteed a good time. Lately, however,
I've become increasingly distressed by a line item that continues to
rocket upwards despite my best efforts. I'm speaking, of course, of
the gasoline bill. Even more distressing than the phenomenal rise of
petrol prices is the fact that investigating the matter led to a more
horrific exposé than a Super BowlTM half-time
show. Lucky for me that I needed a column idea isn't it?
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Contributed by Tyrone Mercer
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With Mother's Day rapidly approaching, the offices of R.A. Enterprises
are taking on a festive air. I've always encouraged my staff to
maintain close family ties and to fondly remember the woman who spent
an extremely uncomfortable nine months bringing them into the world.
As I sat contemplating the rising costs to be imposed by the Medicare
Reform and Wealth Transfer Act, however, I began to think that maybe
dear old mum, and let's not forget her better half, needed to take a
deep breath off of a shallow oxygen tank. In a combination of
executive lying and Congressional undersight unseen since Iraqi
FreedomTM it seems we can't afford to keep our
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I was gazing one day around the offices of R.A. Enterprises and
it occurred to me that our computer system had the air of the abacus
about it. That is to say that the crap beige plastic had turned yellow
from the fluorescent lighting and the manuals all boasted top of the
line 1 GB hard drives. "How the hell will we support a triumphant
return to IRREVERENT with this load of junk?" I queried to no one in
particular. Actually I queried it of someone quite specific: Vaclav
Herçek the IT equivalent of R. A. Enterprises' Legal Samurai Mr.
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