Date: April 2, 2007
Time: 22:22
Place: In NY for a while to come
I was watching Countdown tonight and they had the list of the top 16 foolish people of 2007. Mel Gibson wound up tied for 5th with Dick Cheney. The reason I mention it is for one of his memorable quotes from that fateful evening. It wasn't the rant. There is little point to ranting, because none of them can ever compare to http://www.lyricstime.com/dead-milkmen-stuart-lyrics.html whether set to music or not. No, the quote of which I am speaking is his inquiry of a female officer, "What're you looking at, sugartits?"
At some point in their history, the Kentucky counties just south of Cincinnati (whose airport is in Covington KY) let a bunch of drunk fratboys name their towns. There's Sugartit (near or part of Florence) and the Big Bone Lick state park. The way I became aware of all this was not from a pamphlet from Pueblo, Colorado (see lyrics to "Stuart") but Citibank was threatening to move me and my colleagues there. The genius who decided on this course of action was sumarily canned last November after crippling the division and getting into a disastrous contract with an Indian outsourcer (side note: NY Times columnist Tom Friedman is wrong about the flat world, wrong about small companies solving the energy crisis, and was laughably wrong about Iraq. Then again, his league has Brooks, Dowd, and Rich). The relocation was stopped dead.
Anyway, in this Dilbert-esque world in which managers don't admit mistakes, just this past week the CEO of Citibank announced how well the site consolidation to the Cincinnati area was going. Actually, I think the shareholders are getting ready to move him there.
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