Amazing Trujillo Contest Winner Announced.Columnists gotta complain. It's a big part of our compact with the reader -- to point out society's shortcomings, yadda yadda. For instance, people used to say "yadda yadda" all the time. That was irritating. Now they say "B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ." That's irritating. A good columnist always has a good gripe. Chuck Green, crackerjack crack·er·jack also crack·a·jack adj. Slang Of excellent quality or ability; fine. [Probably from crack, first-rate + jack. columnist for The Denver Post, came up with a genre classic last month in a piece headed, 1st Degree Stupidity is Rampant. Ain't it the truth? But the bigger truth as I write this is the sun is shining, spring is here, and business has never been better. People are starving in Ethiopia, but here in America the big news one day in May was Cable war cuts ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. in 7 cities. (USA Today, May 2, page lA.) On top of all that I've got to sit here and pat myself on the back -- not an easy feat when you're typing. I owe myself a vote of thanks because a couple of months ago I had the foresight to tap a rich vein of reader complaint in a column titled, Get Your Free Lunch Here -- The Enigmatic Mug of US West's Sol Trujillo Prompts this Amazing Contest Offer. The mug can be seen adjacent; the contest involves me buying lunch at the Mexican restaurant of his or her choice for the reader who writes the best photo headline; and the best entries follow: "If You Believe ... They Will Come" (of course, referring to the all-day wait for service). -- Jerry Thompson "US West claims service has gotten much better than killing prairie dogs in Eastern Colorado." -- Connie Kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. , CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , Family Tree Foundation "And now our friends at AT&T will get Bob on the line for us to help me answer these questions." -- Guy Young, RS&I Inc., Denver "'Sorry, wrong number,' says Trujillo." (It's a variation on the "Sorry, you've got the wrong department" line I've heard from them so often when my business line went down.) -- Caite Clemens 1. "Like I Care?" 2. "Like We Care?" 3. "Like I, er, We Care?" I don't think any of the three sums up US West, aka USeless." -- Steve Bobbitt "Like Ma Bell -- ill communication" -- Kevin A. Russell, RFG RFG Reformulated Gasoline RFG Raddon Financial Group RFG Refinery Fuel Gas RFG Ricoh Family Group RFG Radio Frequency Gateway RFG Resource Focus Group RFG Revalidated Force Goal RFG Rainform Gold Management Inc., Englewood How about "I coulda been a contenda." Of course, this would be even funnier with Marlon Brando's voice and Sol's hands moving up and down. -- Sarah Huntzinger And the winner (lunch at the Mexican restaurant of your choice with the companion of your choice) is: "Trujillo Asks Attendees to Pray for Service," as the picture shows him inviting attendees to rise and join him in celebrating this week's dynamic new strategy of "Plug and Pray What some people called Plug and Play on the PC when it was first introduced in the mid-1990s. Plug and Play was a major enhancement and solved the frustration of adding peripherals to a PC. " -- Jon Ziarnik. Second place (lunch with me): Based on the smirks of the people behind Mr. Trujillo, I'm betting he's lost his pants. Therefore ... "Emperor Reveals New Service." -- Harlan E. Rubottom, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , PES pes (pes) pl. pe´des [L.] 1. foot. 2. any footlike part. pes n. pl. pe·des 1. The foot. 2. Messrs. Ziarnik and Rubottom, get in touch and get ready for an awesome chili-powered meal courtesy your ColoradoBiz magazine! |
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