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Betcha it's an April Fool's Day story.
Key quote that make me think so:
"None of our reporters or news anchors knew anything about it. But when we found out what rubble's operating budget was, we just snapped it up. We basically just cut our donut budget and there we were."
C'mon, never heard of the leadership race? And "rubble" for "rabble"? (don't they wish!)
Somebody has a sense of humour.
This whole item is total BS.
In actual fact, rabble.ca has been quietly buying up shares of BCE, intending to leverage its already substantial holdings to demand key appointments to the BCE board. From there, a hostile takeover bid might be launched as early as the spring annual general meeting.
I'd appreciate if babblers keep this development as quiet as possible, for obvious reasons.
In other April 1 news, Cold angers geese at U Waterloo campus.
Unionist, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't make light of my and my co-workers' suddenly precarious job security. If this is some sort of joke, whoever wrote it has a terrible sense of humour.
Finally the suits have seen the light - great!
And Catchfire if you're worried bout your job security just join or start a union
+1, NorthReport! You took the words right out of my mouth. If it takes the prospect of sudden job loss to convince workers to finally, after years of "I'm all right, Jack!", get the message that joining the union is the only way - then so be it!
Given the peculiar nature of the job description, however, I wouldn't recommend our mods joing any existing union, where their particular needs might be drowned out by an insensitive majority. Might I suggest the Only Babblers' Union (OBU)?
This assumes, of course, that babble will survive the hostile takeover at all. According to some reports, rabble's only interest in BCE is to adopt a more consistent pro-corporate stance which leaves no room for dissent. Maybe we should all be joining the OBU while there's still time? Just my
two centsdime.Catchfire: :D
There's always one person who has to give it away in the first post in the thread! Usually that's Caissa - where is he, anyhow? :D
(Just kidding, infracanineophile - actually, one of my beefs with rabble has always been that they give away their own April fool's jokes every year, either by tagging them "April Fool's" or even by ending the piece with a line that says "Happy April Fool's Day"!)
In other news: Carrier pigeons on Parliament Hill!
I believe I have been served. Well played, sir.
Well, now that the truth is out, I should say the Rebecca and I were active proponents of this acquisition. We were hoping our increased revenues would lead to purchasing a major sports franchise, thus turning babble into a jock discussion board. Our only point of contention was which sport. RW wanted a Hamilton handball team while I was pushing for hurling. Good thing our workplace is virtual because it almost came to blows.
Come off it. You two were looking forward to the poetic justice of having complaints to the moderators routed through Bell Canada Customer Service.
"terrible sense of humour" indeed. :)
According to Wikipedia, today is the anniversary of the invention of pigeon photography in 1902. A homing pigeon would be fitted with an aluminum breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached.
In other news, apparently Toronto considered replacing its fibreglass moose with unicorns.
Wow. Think of how much could be saved on military budgets if pigeons were trained and equipped with miniature video cameras and poison darts (missiles would be too heavy) that could be shot remotely at "enemy" targets. Austerity era bio-drones.
And we should start using messenger pigeons again, as the internet becomes too vulnerable...
(This was downright offensive, but I couldn't help myself.)
Caissa was at church.
Now I'll let others figure out who that joke was on.
My favourite gag yesterday was from AdBlock. Usually ads are just removed from websites (like rabble.ca!); but yesterday, they replaced them with cute cats!
OMG! Is this really happening?
ex-feminist....
snort! Tee hee