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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Posted 9:37 AM
  First I missed the whole dotcom thing. Even though I've been online since 1982, I didn't get to cash in on any of what went down between 1997 and 2000. Many friends did. I had my chances. We'd talk about the schemes, how equity was king, how no one who was anyone worked for cash anymore... but I never figured out what they were selling... I'd say "but what's it do?" or "who would want that?" and they'd laugh and tell me I didn't understand startups. The idea was to sell it to someone else and let them figure it out. All those companies are now bankrupt, but it does seem that any number of people involved in them did quite well. My friend Faust and I sat around one night trying to come up with a dotcom for ourselves, but try as we might we couldn't think up an online business that made less sense than all the ones already out there. It seemed that whatever we came up with had already been done, or worse, would have provided a necessary good or service. (Certain disaster!) Now I'm missing out on the whole "misstated earnings/bankruptcy" thing. Global Crossing, PG&E, Enron, now Worldcom... the list goes on. I wish I understood how this one works, it looks like all the guys involved are making a killing. Am I supposed to lie about how much I made, or how much I spent or both? I called Arthur Anderson to find out, but he hung up on me. © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
  
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