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My chief at a large retail chain used to decide on head office redundancies by chanting "One potato, two potato" over the staff list. Tell us about your mad psycho bosses - collect your P45 on the way out.

Bruce Springsteen jokes = Ban, ridicule

(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:06)
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"guitar groups are on the way out" **
My first job from Uni was at a firm that made & sold posters to other students, if you've ever seen a poster sale at a uni advertised with yellow & black plastic signs, that will have been us.

Sometime in the mid-late 90s we had a certain chap named Robin working there. He used to drive an old British Rail van and was something of an artist. Seeing an opportunity he approached my boss with some of his original art with a view to making some posters of them, and was promptly rebuffed with "It's all good, but it won't sell".

Turns out it was this fellow:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

GL
** De-Ris: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decca_audition
(, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 15:45, 1 reply)
To be fair~
Banksy's reaction was "I can't believe you pay money for this shit".
(, Sun 21 Jun 2009, 10:07, closed)

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