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| This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.
This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise.
This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere.
This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world: the battle is not done:
Jesus Who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and Heav’n be one.
This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face.
I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.”
This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above,
The Beloved One, His Only Son,
Came—a pledge of deathless love.
This is my Father’s world, should my heart be ever sad?
The lord is King—let the heavens ring. God reigns—let the earth be glad.
This is my Father’s world. Now closer to Heaven bound,
For dear to God is the earth Christ trod.
No place but is holy ground.
This is my Father’s world. I walk a desert lone.
In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known.
This is my Father’s world, a wanderer I may roam
Whate’er my lot, it matters not,
My heart is still at home. | | |
| Posted: 01/10/2008 49ers' Pro Bowl offensive lineman Allen expected to retire | | By Adam Schefter | NFL Network
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San Francisco's offense was thrown for a loss Thursday, when a source close to 49ers guard Larry Allen said the 11-time Pro-Bowl and future Hall-of-Fame selection is expected to retire.  | | Jed Jacobson / Getty Images | | Larry Allen used his size and strength to open holes for running backs like Frank Gore and Emmitt Smith during his 14-year career. |
One of the strongest lineman to ever play the game, the 6-foot-3, 325-pound Allen no longer has the appetite to maul opponents the way he did for 14 NFL seasons. Until now, it was uncertain whether Allen wanted to return or whether the 49ers wanted him back. Allen is making the decision before anyone can make it for him. Allen had to be persuaded to play this season and it will be, in the opinion of those who know him, next to impossible convince to do the same next season. Last year, 49ers coach Mike Nolan excused Allen from the team's offseason workout program. When Allen finally reported, he showed up in possibly the best shape of his career. But with San Francisco's performance dropping off this past season to the surprise and disappointment of many, Allen is unwilling to return to a team that is not viewed as being on the verge of winning a championship. At 36, Allen is financially secure and ready to move on to life without football. Before he retires, Allen could decide to go through a ceremonial signing with Dallas so he could retire as a Cowboy. He and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones are particularly close; Dallas was the team that drafted Allen out of Sonoma State University in the second round of the 1994 draft with the 46th overall pick. Allen could even wind up asking Jones to be his presenter when he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which could happen as early as 2013. The Class of 2013 will be quite a potential class. It now could include Allen's former 49ers teammate, defensive linemen Bryant Young, another outstanding defensive in tackle Warren Sapp, and Allen. For years, Allen was a lead blocker for the NFL's all-time leading rusher, Emmitt Smith. In Dallas, Allen played right guard, left guard and left tackle during his career –- and dominated for much of his 12 seasons there. Dallas released Allen in March 2006, only to see him sign with the 49ers. | | |
| Parcells: The method to his madness
Coach has a proven blueprint for success that centers on total control – and occasional compassion
11:19 PM CST on Saturday, January 10, 2004
By JULIET MACUR / The Dallas Morning News
IRVING – Out and about town, you may move with a wonderful Dallas Cowboys swagger. But not now.
Now you're in a team meeting. Now you're trying to be invisible.
Because, any minute, dread building up, you expect to hear that
low-gear-grinding-uphill voice remind you that you're not all that
wonderful.
You fumbled a kickoff return. You missed a tackle. Maybe, and this is a
cardinal sin punished by an explosive expletive or two, you ran a play
the wrong way and can't explain why.
The dread becomes real fear when the next sound you hear is head coach
Bill Parcells shouting, "Hey, dumbass!" At which point all 53 players
in the meeting look up, each certain he's the day's target of
opportunity.
Too bad for the one chosen because Parcells is capable of verbal
humiliation so complete that 300-pounders feel tiny, millionaires feel
penniless, grown men with wives and children wonder why, oh why, they
were ever born.
In this year of Cowboys resurrection, Parcells has been more than a
coach. He's been a teacher, a father figure and dictator – an ingenious
transformer who changes his approach, vocabulary and tone to fit the
need.
Mostly, though, he has been a relentless perfectionist who makes everyone miserable.
Players. Assistant coaches. Even himself.
Misery, thy name is Parcells.
He knows it, and he doesn't always like it. In an attempt to understand
it, he says, he even consulted what he calls "kind of" a psychologist.
Still, Parcells learned long ago that he works more effectively when he's not exactly a sweetheart.
"I've told him. 'Bill, to be a great coach in this league, you have to
be an ... [expletive],' " says Dan Henning, once an assistant coach
under Parcells, twice an NFL head coach and now the Carolina Panthers'
offensive coordinator. " 'And when you wake up in the morning and look
in the mirror, you realize you've fulfilled that requirement.' "
His inner circle
Parcells is so cranky, demanding and temperamental that even those
people lucky enough to be in his small circle of friends feel the heat.
Illustration by Michael Hogue / DMN
"Lucky?" said one of those friends, raising an eyebrow. "I wouldn't exactly call it lucky. Ha, ha, ha."
Oddly, the more his teams win, the more irascible Parcells becomes. And
now – watch out! – the Cowboys are 9-5, on the cusp of the playoffs. If
they beat the New York Giants on Sunday or New Orleans next week,
they'll make it to the postseason for the first time since 1999.
When Parcells joined the Cowboys last January, he hoped to rediscover
the magic that had turned around three other NFL teams. He never
thought he'd find it so fast.
So, is he happy?
Not really.
"He expects to be right all the time and to win all the time," one
Cowboys assistant coach says. "He'll say things like, 'If you do it my
... [expletive] way, it's gonna ... [expletive] work, dumbass.' "
Says Henning, a Parcells confidant for more than 30 years: "He has a
philosophy and approach, and he's not going to deviate from that. It's
non-negotiable, one way only."
His dream job
Parcells wasn't always one way.
In 1983, he coached the New York Giants, the team he'd rooted for as a
kid in New Jersey. It was his dream job, near family and friends. He
wanted to keep everyone happy.
He took suggestions from the owner and general manager. He bent when
players moaned about practicing in pads. As hard-shelled as Parcells
could be, he was a pushover in a year when his team went 3-12-1, and he
heard rumors that he would be fired.
It was a dark season personally, too. In October, his backfield coach
and friend Bob Ledbetter died of a stroke. In November, his mother was
diagnosed with cancer; she died within a month. In February, his father
died from heart problems.
Beset by feelings of doubt and helplessness, Parcells made a
life-changing decision. He would do things his way. If he were to fail,
for better or worse, he would fail as himself.
Unleashed was the grumpy, caustic, manipulative Parcells we know today.
"Unfortunately, more people hate him than love him because people don't
like to be pushed, and he's an expert on pushing your buttons," Henning
says.
Losing culture
When Parcells arrived in Dallas, he saw in the Cowboys a "culture of losing."
He also saw Willie Blade, a defensive tackle who presents virtually a case study of the Parcells Method.
Blade had been cut by two NFL teams, including the Cowboys, and was
considered lazy and underachieving. Yet he returned to Dallas for what
Parcells called his "final chance."
From the start, Parcells knew he needed help with Blade. So he called
Willie's father, also named Willie Blade, a stern and affable Air Force
career man who retired a decade ago. Parcells told the father that
Willie could be a great player – but only if he worked hard.
The man said, "Whatever you need, coach."
John F. Rhodes / DMN
Even though he's turned the Cowboys into a winner, Bill Parcells'
unfettered perfectionism can make his players – and himself –
miserable. "I'm really not rational. I know that," he says.
"I remember him saying, 'You stay on him, and I'll stay on him,' " the
elder Willie Blade says. "I knew Willie was a little lazy. I always
told him he couldn't fool those NFL coaches. But coach Parcells was
going to make sure Willie didn't slip up anymore."
Soon after, at Valley Ranch, Parcells asked the younger Blade how much
he weighed. Blade said 315. So Parcells escorted him to the nearest
scale. It read 345.
In front of the team, Parcells said, "I won't have any fat guys playing for me. If you're fat, I'm gonna cut you."
Privately, he told Blade: "If you lose the weight, we can start your career."
Every Tuesday, with the team watching, Parcells weighed Blade until he reached their agreed 315.
"He knew exactly what to say to get me going, like a psychologist,"
says Blade, 24. "He took time and studied me and tried different things
on me, and I appreciated that. Nobody in the NFL cared enough to do
that before."
Still, Blade was unsure of himself. He wondered, "Why does this Super
Bowl coach have faith in me? What does he see in me? He could have a
lot of players do this job; why does he believe in me?"
Blade started the Cowboys' second game of the season, his first NFL
game ever, and then he knew: "I can do this if Coach Parcells thinks I
can. I want nothing else but to play for him because he believed in
me."
Blade's mother, Andrea, and sister Toriana met with Parcells a week
later. They expected a five-minute visit. He kept them for more than an
hour, showing them how kind he could be.
"He talked about my brother as if he'd known him for 24 years, as if he
helped raise him," Toriana Blade says. "He saw in my brother things
that my brother couldn't see in himself."
Soon enough, Toriana's eyes filled with tears as Parcells said how much
respect and confidence he had in her little brother. The coach
emphasized that he'd give Willie as much guidance as he needed to
succeed in the NFL.
"He had such an aura about him," Toriana says. "By the time I left, I had a crush on him."
Now, when Toriana and her mother see one of Parcells' news conferences
on TV, when, inevitably, he is showing his tough-guy side, they laugh.
They feel as if they've seen the real Parcells and that his TV persona
is just an act.
They watch him growl and grimace and, as Toriana recounts, they say, "Wow, there's our kind, sweet Coach Parcells."
Holes, weaknesses
Parcells looks at the Cowboys and doesn't see swaggering heroes. He sees holes and weaknesses, immaturity, stupidity.
During training camp, he told a friend that quarterback Quincy Carter
was a "clown," not serious enough to be a leader. But as the year
progressed, Carter changed – and so did Parcells' perception.
Louis DeLuca / DMN
Mario Edwards was the object of a rare sign of affection in the final seconds of a 23-21 win over Philadelphia in October.
Before the season, owner Jerry Jones says, Carter had promised to quit
partying and change the "social habits" that Jones says distracted
Carter last year. To that end, Carter disappeared into a cocoon.
He stayed in his hotel room during training camp, refusing to watch TV
news or read newspapers. Now he rarely goes out. On off-days and after
games, he reviews videotape.
And this "clown" is having his best season, making fewer mistakes both
physically and mentally, fully aware of Parcells' belief that negative
publicity can destroy a team's morale.
When the media took shots at Carter during an offensive slump in early
November, Carter ignored it, choosing to listen to Parcells'
encouragements: "Hey, you've led this team to the top of the league and
all you gotta do is get this stuff going again."
After the Cowboys beat Carolina to break their offensive drought,
Carter ran off the field with a wide smile, throwing a towel into the
stands, sashaying with joy he's rarely shown this season.
In the interview room later, Parcells became emotional, near tears, as
he said no one could call his team a loser anymore. The Cowboys' win
guaranteed them at least an 8-8 season.
Meanwhile, relief crossed Carter's face as he sat at his locker, hands
clutching a spiritual book, Finishing Strong, an explanation of how a
Christian man should live.
When Parcells walked by, Carter smiled at the man who had stood by him
during trying times. And here's what Parcells said at that warm and
fuzzy moment:
"Hey, don't get full of yourself. You've got to get back out there next week. And you better not screw it up."
Using psychology
At first, Parcells didn't know the Cowboys. So he studied their backgrounds.
Sports psychologist Charlie Maher, a professor at Rutgers University's
graduate school of psychology, worked with Parcells when the coach was
with the New York Jets.
He says he helped Parcells compile a binder filled with information on
each Jet: strengths, weaknesses, personality traits, motivations.
"He took that book home and studied it and reflected on it," says
Maher, now psychologist for the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland
Cavaliers.
Irwin Thompson / DMN
During training camp, Parcells told a friend that Quincy Carter was a
"clown." But the quarterback's performance has improved dramatically
this year under the coach's guidance.
"He sizes up the players and decides what will motivate them or what
types of things will be distracting. He's at his strength when he's
one-on-one with players."
When Parcells can't take a player aside, Maher says, he relies on
assistant coaches or team leaders, handpicking players as mentors to
younger guys.
Enter fullback Richie Anderson, who played for Parcells with the Jets.
Anderson, an 11-year veteran, signed with the Cowboys this season. He
usually avoids the media. He's quiet, thoughtful, professional and
guarded about the public perception of his team.
"The media likes to stir up negative stories that will break a team
apart," he says one afternoon in the locker room, a few minutes before
reminding Carter that media time is over and that the quarterback
doesn't have to answer any more questions.
"Everyone out!" Anderson says to reporters with a smile, though you know he's dead serious.
It's part of Parcells' plan.
"He delegated a lot to the players he considered his leaders," says
former Giants linebacker Harry Carson, who won two Super Bowls with
Parcells. "He'd dump on us what he wanted to get done, saying, 'You see
that player? If he doesn't do what I want him to do, I'm holding you
personally responsible.' He understands that some players listen more
to other players than they would the coach."
During training camp, for example, Parcells stormed off the field in
disgust during a sloppy practice, and Anderson took the cue. The
player, later voted the team's offensive captain, persuaded teammates
to finish practice and walk into the locker room without talking to the
media as a show of us-against-the-world unity.
Then, before the Jets game in late September, Anderson gave a fiery
speech that sent chills through his teammates. He gathered them into a
circle in the locker room and they linked arms. He said, "We are strong
enough to win this game. Let nobody pull us apart."
The psychologist Maher isn't surprised at the role Anderson has
assumed. He says, "Let's get this straight: Bill Parcells doesn't
delegate any power. He just has some apostles spreading his word."
Missed camaraderie
Parcells returned to coaching after two years off because, he says, he
missed the camaraderie of a team and the euphoria of winning.
Soon enough, though, he was reminded that the euphoria is so ephemeral,
it makes him miserable. It delights, only to fade away quickly.
Erich Schlegel / DMN
Willie Blade got on Parcells' bad side by being 30 pounds overweight,
but the defensive tackle is one of the coach's success stories. "He
took time and studied me and tried different things on me, and I
appreciated that," Blade says. "Nobody in the NFL cared enough to do
that before."
"We don't really remember the wins, that's what's so sad," a Cowboys
assistant coach says. "When we win, we get it worse [from Parcells]
than when we lose. He's always looking for perfection, always demanding
that we try to find it, but even when we come close, it's never
enough."
Before a game in mid-November, Parcells attempted a mini-psychoanalysis
of himself during a news conference, trying to understand why he cannot
be happy even when everything is going well.
"A guy recently did tell me that I have no mental defense for what
happens to me, and that term just hit me right square," Parcells said
of the "professional person" he consulted.
"As soon as he said it, I told myself, 'That's the trouble with you,
Parcells. You don't have any mental defense for your emotions.' "
Even after winning his Super Bowls, he worried about mistakes he'd
made. It has become a misery-making ritual: He'll dig until he finds an
imperfection, then he'll beat himself up for it.
His neuroticism bothers him. "I am not happy about being the way I am. I'm really not," he said.
Later, in a hallway leading to his office, he lowered his voice and
continued: "I'm really not rational. I know that – but there's nothing
I can do about it. I just can't control it. It's not a mental
deficiency or a behavioral flaw. ... It just ... it's just something
that ... oh, I don't know. It just overcomes me. Do you think I like
being this way?"
The soft side
Parcells hopes his irrational search for perfection filters down to his players.
What his players go through, however, is a search for something else elusive and fleeting: Parcells' approval.
Terry Glenn, a receiver who played for Parcells in New England,
believes he knows why the Cowboys have improved with Parcells in
charge.
"They're trying so hard to impress him so they can get underneath the
militant Parcells and get a glimpse of the real Parcells," says Glenn,
who considers the coach the father he never had. "You want to make him
proud so you can see the other side of him because it's a nice side, a
side you can appreciate."
Michael Mulvey / DMN
Parcells gave Joey Galloway a sign of approval after the receiver made
a big play in a winning Sept. 28 effort against the New York Jets, a
team Parcells once coached.
Parcells can be impossibly gruff with his players, and Glenn can attest
to that. But he's seen his soft side, too. There were times when the
coach took Glenn aside to say, "Great job," candid moments when he
patted him on the back in the hallway.
"Suddenly you have this secret. You feel excited, appreciated," Glenn
says. "I can see it in these players now. They're looking for him to
smile."
Even assistant coaches feel that way, though their fear of seeing
Parcells frown is just as strong. Before Thanksgiving, none was brave
enough to ask for the weekend off. (Parcells gave them two days off
anyway, their first days off since training camp began.)
"He makes it uncomfortable for everybody," Maher says. "He can be very
positive, but he can be punishing. It is not fun. But that's just Bill.
He can carry that off authentically."
Parcells is so good at authenticity that he can make a marginal player
believe he's the best in the NFL. He's so good that he can convince his
players that, with him leading the way, they can go as far as the Super
Bowl.
There is no mistaking it: Parcells is not former Cowboys coach Dave Campo.
When Campo took over the Cowboys, it was his first job as an NFL head
coach. During his three years, the Cowboys lost 33 games and won only
15.
The Cowboys aren't skeptical about Parcells' ability. He has won before
and has two Super Bowl rings tucked away in his apartment. The first
day he walked into Valley Ranch, he had instant credibility.
"When a team realizes that it has the best coach there is, everyone
starts listening to what he has to say," says tight end Dan Campbell,
who, in college, wrote a paper on Bill Parcells and leadership. "Maybe
he's saying the same old thing that you've heard from 100 coaches in
the past, but with him, you actually believe it."
Preppy grandpa
One day for a news conference, Parcells showed up wearing a navy
cardigan, with big buttons fastened all the way up. He looked less like
an NFL coach/tyrant than a preppy grandpa.
He can be the coolest grandpa, but only if he decides to be.
If he's in the mood, Parcells will fawn over his players and the
relationship he builds with them. "I told them, 'It's the easiest
relationship you'll ever have,' " Parcells said. " 'It's more simple
than that with your family, your wife, your kids, anything. You're
bonded together by this thing.' "
That is not to say Parcells will ever be mistaken for Dick Vermeil, the tenderhearted Kansas City Chiefs coach.
Vermeil, a friend of Parcells, says some coaches find it advantageous
to let their guard down with players from time to time. Parcells, he
says, has a stricter coaching style.
Louis DeLuca / DMN
Parcells congratulated tight end Dan Campbell after a close win over one of the coach's old teams, the Giants, in Week 2.
"Anybody who has been in the Second World War can tell you that
Parcells coaches like a general," Vermeil says. "There's always a line
between him and his players. There's no question who is in charge."
With Parcells, there is always a boundary. He determines when it's personal and when it's business.
Glenn says he would "love to make it personal" someday and have his
children get to know Parcells. He looks forward to dinners with the
coach or impromptu golf games with the man who has meant so much to
him.
For now, though, he's fine with a relationship based purely on football
– a relationship that, Glenn says, is "right here between these walls."
Other players still don't understand that.
In the days before receiver Reggie Swinton was traded, he moped at his
locker. He had been made inactive and said no one told him why.
"Man, what's happening?" he said. "I asked the assistant coaches what
the deal was, and they told me that even they don't know. They said
Coach Parcells didn't tell them.
"Parcells is supposed to be so close to his players. But to me, he's just cold."
Swinton, oblivious to his tenuous position, had just moved into a new house nearby. He was traded the next day.
Coaching dictator?
Last spring, before he put his iron fist around the throat of his team
and the media, Parcells sat in his office and discussed semantics. The
word "dictator" was up for discussion, as in, "Bill Parcells, a
coaching dictator."
Though the record suggests the label is appropriate, Parcells bristled at the very idea.
"I would disagree with that statement. I would strongly disagree with
that statement," he said, raising his voice and rising from his chair.
"Dictator ... is ... the ... wrong ... word.
"I would say regimented or organized, directed, demanding – but I would
not say dictator. That implies that you're inflexible," he said.
Then, perhaps realizing that he sounded inflexible on the subject of
being flexible, Parcells bowed his head and recited lines from a novel,
Once an Eagle, which was popular reading for West Point cadets during
the time Parcells coached at the academy. He memorized the lines 35
years ago:
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check
impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with
discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote.
It carries the seeds of its own destruction.
And there he stood, a leader by any name, indestructible. | | |
| CHRISTMAS PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 01, 2007
RE: Christmas Party
I'm happy to inform you that the Company Christmas Party
will take place on December 23, starting at noon in the private
function room at the Grill House.
We'll have a \small band playing traditional carols...feel free to sing along.
We will serve Wine, Beer and Soda at no charge, but hard liquor
And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up as Santa Claus!
A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM. Exchange of gifts
among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift
should be over $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for
everyone's pockets. This gathering is only for employees only!
Our CEO will make a special announcement at that time!
Merry Christmas to you and your family .
Patty
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FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 02, 2007
RE: Holiday Party
In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees.
We recognize that Chanukah is an important holiday, which often coincides
with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year. However,
from now on we're calling it our "Holiday Party."
The same policy applies to any other employees who are not
Christians or those still celebrating Reconciliation Day.
There will be no Christmas tree. No Christmas carols sung.
We will have other types of music. Happy now?
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Patty
*****************************************************
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 03, 2007
RE: Holiday Party
Regarding the note I received from a ! member of Alcoholics
Anonymous requesting a non-drinking table ... you didn't sign your name.
I'm happy to accommodate this request, but if I put a sign on a table that
reads, "AA Only"; you wouldn't be anonymous anymore.
How am I supposed to handle this? Somebody?
Forget about the gifts exchange, no gifts exchange are allowed since
the union members feel that $10.00 is too much money and executives
believe $10.00 is a little chintzy. NO GIFTS EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED.
****************************************************************
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
To: All Employees
RE: Holiday Party
What a diverse group we are! I had no idea that December 20
begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids
eating and drinking during daylight hours.
There goes the party! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon
at this time of year does not accommodate our Muslim employees'
beliefs. Perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving your meal
until the end of the party or else package everything for you to
take it home in little foil doggy baggy. Will that work?
Meanwhile, I've arranged for members of Weight Watchers to
sit farthest from The dessert buffet and pregnant women will
get the table closest to the restrooms.
Gays are allowed to sit with each other. Lesbians do not have to
sit with Gay men, each will have their own table. Yes, there
will be flower arrangement for the Gay men's table.
To the person asking permission to cross dress, no
cross-dressing allowed though.
We will have booster seats for short people.
Low-fat food will be available for those on a diet.
We cannot control the salt used in the food we suggest for
those people with high blood pressure to taste first.
There will be fresh fruits as dessert for Diabetics, the
restaurant cannot supply "No Sugar" desserts. Sorry!
Did I miss anything?????
Patty
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FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All F****** Employees
DATE: October 05, 2007
RE: The F****** Holiday Party
Vegetarian pricks I've had it with you people!!! We're going to keep
this party at the Grill House whether you like it or not, so you can
sit quietly at the table furthest from the "grill of death," as you
so quaintly put it, and you'll get your f****** salad bar, including
organic tomatoes. But you know, tomatoes have feelings, too. They scream when you slice them. I've heard them scream. I'm hearing them scream right
NOW! I hope you all have a rotten holiday!
Drive drunk and die,
The Bitch from HELL!!!!!!!!
*********************************************
FROM: Joan Bishop, Acting Human Resources Director
DATE : October 06, 2007
RE: Patty Lewis and Holiday Party
I'm sure I speak for all of us in wishing Patty Lewis a
speedy recovery and I'll continue to forward your cards to her at the Mental Institute she is currently recovering in.
In the meantime, management has decided to cancel our Holiday Party
and give everyone the afternoon of the 23rd off with full pay.
Happy Holidays!
Joan | | |
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