[Newspoetry] Tabloid NewsPoetry ideas

[Paul Kotheimer]

PAPPARAZI ATTACKED BY YETI

[more to follow]

pk

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Joe Futrelle wrote:

> 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".
> 
> 
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