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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:59:09 +0000
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Eric Bender
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>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:30:01 +0000, John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>>I thought that $21 million was the cost of carly's dismissal.
>>
>>Not so, it's more like $42 million!
>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>John
>>
>
>Interestingly enough, the $42,000,000 cost of Carly's early exit from HP
>is exactly the same amount offered by the National Hockey League as its
>final total salary cap per team before the 2004-2005 NHL season was
>mercifully terminated yesterday.
>
>Surely somewhat more witty than I could come up with a one-liner linking
>the value of Carly to that of an entire team of hockey players...
>
>Hmmm, Eric

When one of the top NHL team's defenders was asked what he did to merit
such high wages, he pointed to an action replay of one of his recent
goalmouth clearances and said 'Watch me get the puck out of there faster
than you would have thought possible'.

But there is no obvious reason why Carly Fiorina would say anything
similar, is there?


--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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