In message <[log in to unmask]>, Douglas Becker <[log in to unmask]> writes >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. This does have the required meter: Eyeing Compaq, one Carly Fiorina Thought a merger would make the grass greener But she failed to placate The heirs of the late Dave and Bill; now her times will be leaner.... -- Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *