Just read AL’s story about AOL’s CEO, and I hereby request we use this picture every fucking time we talk about these sociopaths, because I am running out of four letter words:
Well, not really. I am living proof that profanity, much like peak wingnut, is a renewable energy resource.
srv
Alan Arkin was delightful at SF Sketchfest tonight. And we all watched The In Laws again.
KG
Heh, that was my office desktop when I was doing mortgage fraud litigation back in the day
Jay S
Wait, you have a large supply of four letter words appropriate for this situation? I’m all eyes.
ruemara
There was a great atheist blog called “War on Faith”, run by a former Marine. That man could work in cuss words like a Picasso in oils or a Brancusi in marble. I have great faith in the renewable resource of servicemen with cussing. I learned so much from him.
NotMax
As someone who eschews profanity (and also bemoans the dilution of its impact through its increasingly casual usage), my sentiments may be parallel but their expression would differ somewhat.
The Dangerman
Fuck, there’s still an AOL? Seriously, last time I thought of them might have been in the last millenium (when they were still sending me free disks to decorate my Christmas Tree).
JoyfulA
@The Dangerman: AOL bought Huffington Post and MapQuest.
John Cole
@The Dangerman: I’m still shocked that they survived sending me 2,000 coasters from 1995 to 2002. I mean cd’s to try me to sign up for aol and kill my OS FUCKING DEAD.
James E. Powell
@JoyfulA:
AOL bought Huffington Post and MapQuest.
But how does it make money?
hells littlest angel
@James E. Powell: Well, it also owns Radio Shack.
Elizabelle
@ruemara:
Here’s the War on Faith blog you mentioned. Looks fun.
He’s got a section called What the Fuck, which includes his epic rants (Attention: John Cole); another on Heathen Quotes, in addition to the expected Bible Quotes.
Ruckus
@ruemara:
That is a great blog!
John S.
@hells littlest angel:
So… How does it make money? LOL
ThresherK
@The Dangerman: My thoughts exactly: World’s pettiest tyrant determined to exercise total authority over the sinking ship of AOL.
Bjacques
I expect Malcolm Tucker from “The Thick Of It” and the spinoff movie “On The Loop” would have some choice words for this.
NorthLeft12
I have always enjoyed seeing that sign and picture. Brings a smile to my face every time.
As an Engineer I appreciate the simplicity, directness, materials of construction, yes, I would go so far as to call that sign elegant in its overall design.
The only negative being the impact of the message on the sensitve fee fees of the banksters/market manipulators/con artists that it is aimed at. Haha, no I could not say that with a straight face.
I am sure some media apologist will point to this sign and claim that this was the start of the class war when the moocher mob ambushed the job creators.
eric
@NotMax: fucking A. what the fuck are you even fucking talking about. Shit.
Chris Rich
AOL is a poster child for the stupid. This idiot is still a CEO? I thought it went into some kind of receivership.
Have people forgotten the stunningly stupid and unusual Time Warner deal where guppy AOL tried to swallow the Time Warner pickerel using leverage and speculation fever only to puke it out a few years later?
If there were an Oscar Award thing for Grotesque Management Malpractice this pathetic Galt Clone would be a shoo-in.
SFAW
@James E. Powell:
They just hired a new CFO/COO/BFD, a Mr. M. Minderbinder, who has been known to buy something for 7 units of currency, sell it for 6, and still turn a profit.
C.V. Danes
@The Dangerman:
My thoughts exactly.
What a way to motivate the workers of an irrelevant company to not be so irrelevant.
Mathguy
@ruemara: for my money, the Rembrandts of cursing are the Sou th Park guys. Cartman in “Bigger, Longer and Uncut” unleashes strings of profanity so amazing I still marvel at them today.
Paul in KY
@ruemara: The militery is certainly the big leagues, when it comes to cussing.
Mnemosyne
@Bjacques:
Fun fact: the guy who played Malcolm Tucker is the new Doctor Who.
Ruckus
@Paul in KY:
I met a few really good practitioners in the military, after all swearing like a sailor isn’t a saying for nothing. But I learned my swearing in machine shops. Not all allow or have this trait but the one’s I liked did. Mistakes elicit the best streams ever. One could tell the size/severity of the mistake by the amount/creativity of the blue smoke rising. Alas I find that too many people are fucking pc these days and can’t seem to allow themselves the pleasure of a few invectives now and again.
different-church-lady
@hells littlest angel: Damn. I’m gonna miss Radio Shack.
SteveinSC
No, the only thing to do is not just repost the picture. The thing to do is actually Push one or two of the motherfuckers off the fucking roof…pour decourager les autres