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4/5/2004
"A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life."
Erasmus Darwin, 1792
APRIL FOOLISHNESS
It’s tradition here at Degenerate Press to announce our demise every year on
April Fools, just to see if anyone cares. Yet again we’re amazed someone does!
Here’s a sampling of those who knew better:
Ha ha ha, never again will you get my on april fool’s day, Frederick!!!
Degenerate MBF
Your new April Fool's joke is your best one yet!
Bravo!
I actually believed it right up until you mentioned taking down the site at the
end of the week.
Degenerate GN
good one. and you even did a little plan-ahead priming. this time, i hope you're
april fool's joke has some truth to it. i can't imagine anything more amusing
than fred noble on atlanta's city council.
Degenerate AH
Not this time, buddy. After getting burned twice I think of April 1st as
'Watch Out for Frederick's Pranks" Day. Good one though. I really
appreciate the pre-prank buildup.
But for every long-time subscriber that knew better, there was some newbie or
even a few old suckers out there who bought it hook, line and sinker:
I can’t believe that I wasn't fooled last year but I was this year. I asked Lea
if she had seen your "announcement" and she said, "Yeah. What day is it?" "Uh,
Thursday." "What's the DATE?" "Doh!"
It's too bad really. I'd love to see the shit that got slung at you. Taking down
your website wouldn't be enough to keep the scandal hounds from figuring out
that you are a Degenerate. Given the right demographic in your District, you
might have a shot though. You certainly can't be accused of being a career
politician...
Degenerate JH
Good luck! Guess this Fantasm will have to be a big blowout for you, and a
good time to kick off your campaign. Hey, run for Mr. Fantasm with this as
your talent!
Degenerate AG
Wow! Good luck to ya! Having registered to vote in ATL's District 3, I could
have voted for you, but have relocated to Gwinnett County.
Degenerate MB
Do I smell a benifit show for your campain??????
The Cogburns are in if you need us!!!!!!!!!!!
Thus begins another year of brainstorming our next April Fools joke.
Unfortunately, the DP archives are incomplete and only go back so far, but it’s
still fun to look back and remember the time the FBI shut us down, the time we
sold the whole thing to Jeff Clark, or the time we got a job in Italy and didn’t
come home.
BLASPHEMY
"With U.S. troops still having to battle insurgents and defend themselves, the
job of protecting everyone else in Iraq—from journalists to government
contractors to the U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer—is largely being
done by private security companies stocked with former soldiers looking for good
money and the taste of danger. Pentagon officials count roughly 20 private
companies around the world that contract for security work, mainly in combat
areas. They are finding plenty of it in Iraq. Scott Custer, a co-director of
Custer Battles, based in Fairfax, Va., says as many as 30,000 Iraqis and
"several thousand expats" are working for private outfits in Iraq. Security
contractors make a lot more than the average soldier, but last week's events
suggest that they may also be turning into more attractive targets for
insurgents. "If they can chase us out," says Custer co-director Mike Battles,
"then in a void, they become more powerful.""
From a Time Magazine article,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040412-607775,00.html?cnn=yes
My question is this: would YOU work for a company called "Custer Battles"??
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