[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Begins Rolling Blackouts

[Mike Lehman]

Joe,
I'm glad of that. Looks like it's a good thing I quit before I got
merged and laid-off. At least I'll be at the head of the line, in front
of all these folks:
<http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=21168&pod_id=10>
Yr Fthful Srvant,
Mike

Joe Futrelle wrote:
> 
> 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