[Newspoetry] Newspoetry acquired by Schneertz

[Joe Futrelle]

NEWSPOETRY ACQUIRED BY SCHNEERTZ

Urbana, IL (Associated Poets): Newspoetry international, the company
responsible for the runaway hit web destination newspoetry.com, was
acquired by the Schneertz National Institute For the Advanced Study of
Something-or-other (SNIFASS) January 1st in a friendly password swap.
Outgoing webmaster William Gillespie was replaced by Schneertz CEO Joe
Futrelle, who says he welcomes the change (pronounced "SHAWNJ").

But Futrelle's stewardship of newspoetry.com has been dogged by
scandal from the outset.  Ones of disappointed surfers discovered
shortly after the clock struck 12 on New Year's Eve that the site was
down.  The error was traced to one of Futrelle's Perl scripts and
quickly repaired.  Newspoetry has estimated that the lost traffic cost
the site $0.  Unconfirmed reports have also surfaced that Futrelle
offered Gillespie a used car that barely runs in exchange for the
site.  The value of the car is reported to exceed $20.  Although
Futrelle has denied the allegations, it seems too late for newspoetry
to escape being tainted by the scandal that seems to surround Futrelle
at every turn.

Unless, as Schneertz has always reminded us, things "shawnj".