Hopefully the skids are teflon:

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=109418

Not too much new except for the baseball metaphor.

If only she had waited until the week before the stockholders meeting to
announce the merger....

Her epitaph at HP [certainly NOT iambic pentameter]:

There once was a woman named Carly,
Who thought a merger with Compaq would be gnarly,
It's easy to see, said she,
It'll benefit HP, Compaq and me,
But the Family, customers, employees, stockholders, and finacial analysts
became snarly.

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