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“Contract is Singed and We Are Ready to Proceed”

“You Know What They Meant” Department Among the hundreds of “spam” emails intercepted by my email filter each week was one the other day with this subject title:  “Contract is singed and we are ready to proceed.” Not recognizing the sender — and having no in-progress deals about to go up in smoke — I...
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There Oughta Be a Name For That: “The Running Groom” & Other Unfortunate Web Mashups

“Think About It” . . . “Running Room” . . . “Investors Exchange” What do the three names (above) have in common? Just this:  they’re all real-life organizations whose titles make for (very) unfortunate URL’s (Website names). To pick just one example:  “Running Room” merges into something that could easily be read as “Running Groom.” A...
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