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To: hlpinout who wrote (94396)	12/21/2001 8:41:01 AM
From: hlpinout	Respond to of 97611

A bit 'o humor (or not) from the Inquirer. Have a safe holiday and Merry Christmas to all. -- Compaq-HP "deal" gets like pantomime Widow Twanky, Mother Goose and Buttons By Mike Magee, 21/12/2001 11:22:16 BST WE NOTE, WITH no surprise whatever but a certain amount of regret, that no PR people have been back to contact us to help answer the multitude of questions we posed the other day. The whole affair is beginning to resemble a British pantomime, and all we need to figure out is who is occupying which half of the celebrated pantomime horse. We need to identify exactly which pantomime it is, so we can decide whether Carly Fiorina is Widow Twankey and whether Mike Capellas is Buttons or Wishie Washie. British pantomimes have "principal boys" who are girls and "principal girls" who are girls, as well as famous "pantomime dames", played by men. The PDF we posted yesterday is a masterpiece of plum duff by the Sultanas of Spin and we particularly liked the "successful mergers" that are talked about in the document. We note, however, there is no mention whatever of "successful mergers" Eckhard Pfeiffer pulled off when he presided over Pfortress Pfeiffer at The Big Q campus, such as the takeover of DEC, the takeover of Compaq and many, many another. What happened yesterday in the pantomime? Canadian antitrust officials said a deal between Compaq and HP would be no problem whatever, Compaq and HP filed SEC statements saying that the special "integration team" wouldn't necessarily get "disintegrated" if the deal collapsed, and David Packard said just because he didn't want the deal to go through didn't mean he was averse to change. He just thinks it's highly risky and will cost far too many jobs. µ