[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Begins Rolling Blackouts

[Joe Futrelle]

You'll receive a generous severance package.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:41:43PM -0600, Mike Lehman wrote:
> Esteemed Almighty Editor,
> If that happens, I quit.
> Mike
> 
> Joe Futrelle wrote:
> > 
> > The Web (Associated Poets)
> > 
> > Ones of Netizens found themselves without poetry today as poetry
> > supplier Newspoetry-Schneertz Inc. began instituting rolling blackouts
> > across selected coverage areas.
> SNIP ><><><
> > Fortunately, President-elect George W. Bush has offered a plan to save
> > Newspoetry which has gained widespread unanimous grass-roots
> > septuapartisan support among a small elite class of his cronies and is
> > therefore an inevitability.  The plan calls to sell Newspoetry to
> > DisneyAOLTimeWarner which will: encrust the daily newspoem in several
> > layers of navigation menus jam-packed with blinking banner ads for
> > Nike, the Army ("An Army of One!"), Nabisco, and Pfizer; edit all
> > Newspoetry content for "family-friendliness"; and charge a $29.99/mo
> > access fee.
> 
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