Google Stock Finishes at 666... Time For A New Corporate Motto?
Uproar! Pandemonium! Mismatched cufflinks! Google's corporate slogan is, "Don't Be Evil" - it was perhaps an omen, then, when the stock market finished out with the entirely-not-evil corporation's stock embracing The Darkness.
"Don't be evil!" their motto admonishes - you can almost picture the waggling finger and wry half-smile when it's read aloud. And while we could ponder the profundity of that sagacity -- and probably throw more multisyllabic words around just for the gee-whiz of it -- let's instead take a moment to consider the ramifications of... oh, why wait, here's the belly-laugh-inducing pictorial goodness.
While the Sign Of The Beast is no more unknown on Wall Street than on the mailbox of the scary lady who lived down the street from you when you were a kid, it's a particularly tasty tidbit of irony for a company who apparently feels it prudent to remind its employees not to, for example, hunger for world domination, tie naive blonde damsels to railroad tracks or talk at the theater.
So for the True Face Of Evil (eVil?) to be so shockingly and suddenly revealed is surely a ray of hope in this age; it proves that somewhere, somehow, someone is twirling one end of a thick black moustache and lamenting that he was Foiled Again.
Of course, he would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling stock tickers.
"Don't be evil!" their motto admonishes - you can almost picture the waggling finger and wry half-smile when it's read aloud. And while we could ponder the profundity of that sagacity -- and probably throw more multisyllabic words around just for the gee-whiz of it -- let's instead take a moment to consider the ramifications of... oh, why wait, here's the belly-laugh-inducing pictorial goodness.
While the Sign Of The Beast is no more unknown on Wall Street than on the mailbox of the scary lady who lived down the street from you when you were a kid, it's a particularly tasty tidbit of irony for a company who apparently feels it prudent to remind its employees not to, for example, hunger for world domination, tie naive blonde damsels to railroad tracks or talk at the theater.
So for the True Face Of Evil (eVil?) to be so shockingly and suddenly revealed is surely a ray of hope in this age; it proves that somewhere, somehow, someone is twirling one end of a thick black moustache and lamenting that he was Foiled Again.
Of course, he would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling stock tickers.
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posted by Daniel Kirk at 11/28/2007 07:58:00 PM
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