http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7929.html
Or Dave Frishberg's Blizzard of Lies:
We must have lunch real soon. Your luggage is checked through. We've got inflation licked. I'll get right back to you. It's just a standard form. Tomorrow without fail. Pleased to meet you. Thanks a lot. Your check is in the mail.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Your toes and knees aren't all you'll freeze
When you're in it up to your thighs.
It looks like snow, but you never know
When you're marooned in a blizzard of lies.
You may have won a prize. Won't wrinkle, shrink or peel. Your secret's safe with me. This is a real good deal. It's finger lickin' good. Strictly by the book. What's fair is fair. I'll be right there. I am not a crook.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Better watch your step when your old dog Shep
Can't even look you in the eyes.
You're cold and lost and you're double crossed
When you're marooned in a blizzard of lies.
We'll send someone right out. Now this won't hurt a bit. He's in a meeting now. The coat's a perfect fit. It's strictly fresh today. Service with a smile. I'll love you darling 'till I die. We'll keep your name on file.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart.
And you're in for a big surprise.
When you're marooned, marooned, marooned
marooned, marooned, marooned,
marooned, marooned, marooned in a blizzard of lies.
A blizzard of lies.
----------------------------------------------------------------- Written by D & S (Josh) Frishberg
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Lucy Kellaway does a wonderful parody of this
> style in her weekly
> > Martin Lukes column in the Financial Times
> <http://www.ft.com/comment/
> > columnists/martinlukes> - the only serial
> epistolary fiction I know
> > of, in email form. The protagonist, Lukes, is
> chief great leader of a-
> > b global UK, a conglomerate whose product is
> unclear. He's alwoys
> > "diarising brainbangs" with his staff, offering
> "thought showers" and
> > "mind bullets" to colleagues, and coining
> neologisms like Creovation
> > and Integethics. His latest scheme is to make a-b
> global UK carbon
> > neutral, and he's trying to diarise a brainbang
> with Richard Branson
> > and Nicholas Stern to help that happen.
>
> The large hi tech company I work for is rife with
> this. I went to a
> meeting yesterday where my boss' boss' boss came to
> speak. Every single
> thing he said was a cliche. But this to me so is not
> so much proof that
> he is lying as that 1) once you get that many layers
> away from reality,
> you have fewer real things to talk about and 2) it
> is much easier to lie
> with cliches. Even I, in a corporate setting, find
> cliches coming down
> like snow and blurring all boundaries when I open my
> mouth. I have to
> stay very alert to keep this from happening.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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