[Newspoetry] Newspoetry acquired by Schneertz

[Mike Lehman]

With all this scandal, I think we ought to put Futrelle on a hastily
rescheduled small Learjet flight to...
Does it matter?  The only thing worse for him at this point is to wake up
with one of them expired animals heads (exact type not specified due to
the sensiblities of certain Newspoetry readers)  that the Mafia has been
known to send on special occassions.

If he survives this scandal, he'll have to do the American thing to save
his honor...
Run for public office.

Mike


Joe Futrelle wrote:

> 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.