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To: levy who wrote (25710)	3/27/2001 3:03:50 PM
From: badgerstate	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

your url link doesn't get me anything.

To: levy who wrote (25710)	3/27/2001 3:07:37 PM
From: Roger Sherman	Respond to of 28311

Even the darn Comic Strips are getting into the act... I don't know how many of you follow the DOONESBURY comic strip, by Garry Trudeau. Last Sunday's strip, on 3/25/2001, sort of subtlety and accurately rubs a little salt in wounds, summing up the DotBomb fiascoes that many companies turned out to be. Those of you who have followed the strip the past few years will recall that Mike Doonesbury had moved to somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, went to work for a software company, and remarried. After making and subsequently loosing a fortune following his company's huge IPO, the company went completely bust...with massive layoffs. In the 3/25/01 strip, Mike is sitting with his old boss Bernie, in lounge chairs on a patio under a big evergreen tree, forlornly and contemplatively gazing out at what appears to be either Puget Sound, or Lake Washington...with either the Olympic or Cascade mountain range in the distance. Both are sipping what appears to be white wine, although they may have just polished off a sixpack, as Bernie has what looks like a beer in his hand in the first scene. The following dialogue takes place: BERNIE: It's a brave new world, Mike... And it looks like the world two world's ago! MIKE: So what are you working on these days, Bernie? BERNIE: Not much, actually... Until last year we were pretty vested in building leading-edge applications for wireless hand-helds. But then one day I came up with a radical new paradigm for my business. I decided that from now on, I would only sell boring stuff that people actually need. MIKE: Boring stuff that people actually need? BERNIE: Yup. You'd be surprised how lucrative it is. MIKE: Wow, how'd you get the idea? BERNIE: Well, I was looking at some old issues of "Business Week"...