People
Issue No. 25 - October/November 2005
Famous - but for the right reasons?
by Colin Pearce
Doofus and Co is in the headlines this month.
A newspaper journalist had published an article about what a sexist, racist, union-bashing, Prime Minister-berating twit the CEO is, quoting him extensively.
It seems the CEO, affectionately known among his mates as 'Turps' had been on the liquid refreshments all afternoon after a corporate golf day and had outlined the synopsis of his latest PhD to a few of his academic colleagues in the bar.
He made the dedication to his wife who seemed responsible for his amazing golf handicap. He said if it were not for her encouragement to get out of the house so often he would have never become so skilful.
The first chapter was about his business rivals. He theorised about whether it was possible for so many of them to have been born without fathers. He added footnotes about the racial origins of their wives and mothers.
The second chapter moved easily to the women in the office and the high levels of desire he suspected they held for him and how sweetly he'd often thought of satiating that desire for them. His intensive market research had revealed that several of them were “asking for it”.
The third chapter was almost a section itself. He drew on his vast studies in global economics whereby he berated the governments of several nations and the union movement in Australia for the destruction of the Australian business owner and the deterioration of the Australian way of life
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