Re: CHAT: The ridiculously stupid, offtopic HCI thread.
| From: | Mark P. Line <mark@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 3, 2004, 20:06 |
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taliesin the storyteller said:
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> You might want to explain to the non-USAians what a Fortune-<number>
> company is.
Sorry.
Fortune-<number> is a rather unofficial reference to the top <number>
companies on Fortune Magazine's ranking of the top 500 US companies by
size. (Unofficial because the top <number> fluctuates more than membership
in the 500, and because I don't think Fortune itself commonly uses such
terms where <number> is not 500.)
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune500
(You may need to google for somebody's freely accessible copy of the list,
if you're interested.)
>> P.P.S. What was the name of the guy with the stapler in _Office
>> Space_?
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> Milton, and he's scarily like a guy I used to be on the same lab with.
Yeah, Milton. How could I forget. Didn't he have the title role in a comic
strip on which the movie was based, or something?
-- Mark