IBM speak always had me baffled.

Back in the days of yore at IBM I received a memo on my desk in an
envelope marked "secret and confidential".

I opened said letter and it started with...

"There is a possibility of an IBM separation, do not discuss this with
anyone...".

I thought this was the way they fired people.

It was actually a primer for the potential break up of IBM due to
antitrust findings.

I felt physically sick for a whole afternoon.

Later I felt physically sick when IBM didn't break up!



On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Gilmore writes:
>>Timothy Sipples will doubtless leap to the defense of its execrable
>>English....
>
> No. I'm not the one who favors debating "proper" English in this forum. I
> recommend alt.usage.english instead:
>
> http://alt-usage-english.org
>
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