Friday, February 8, 2002

Kmart Hires Arthur Andersen Chicago --- Ailing retail giant Kmart today announced it would not have to declare bankruptcy after an audit conducted by its newly hired accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, found no records of company finances whatsoever. "Our previous accounting firm told us we lost $224 million in the fiscal third quarter, but Andersen has informed us that, at least on paper, we didn't have a fiscal third quarter," said CEO Charles Conaway. "What a difference proper accounting makes." Andersen executives did not return several messages. A company attorney later explained his clients were only allowed one phone call, and they had already made it. [SatireWire.com] 11:02:04 AM

The Joy of Spam Stupidity Reading your email can be entertaining. Spam can even be entertaining. Paul Willis is an asshole. He claims to run a Internet Email Advertising Company. He pollutes peoples email boxes with Spam. He is what is most wrong with the internet. A friend forwarded an email to me with some choice comments about this jerk. I looked through his effort to sell a book for $39.00 [a promotional price that is 99 cents off his regular price], that would tell me the secrets of being a Spam Slug. At the end of his email I saw this disclaimer: "By accepting and or reading this book you agree to hold the author, seller, reseller, distributor(s) And their agents harmless from any monetary or other damages directly or indirectly relating to the Material contained in this book and/or the practice of any activity contained or described in this book." You would think that the person planning to buy his book would stop and see this as a warning sign. Sadly only a moron would act on this ad, so the disclaimer would be meaningless...mj 10:23:29 AM

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