<< LOCAL CARS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE ~ MAIN ~ DEATH HOUR >>

BOOKS UNBALANCED

The Mo bitches at Borders are in money trouble:

Borders could become the latest victim of the credit squeeze, announcing Thursday that it may put itself up for sale ... . Shares in Borders tumbled more than 39 percent ...

They can always increase their bag levy.

UPDATE. In other book news, a disgruntled Michael Moore staffer is selling his copy of Downsize This:

Mr. Moore’s staff provided NO TRAINING AT ALL to the intricacies of his very weird office, except for one briefing document that described what food the office must always have ...

(Via Chris W.)

Posted by Tim B. on 03/22/2008 at 11:48 PM
  1. From disgruntled former ex-Michael Moore employee:

    The book is nice, but I think I would rather have had a fair, respectful job where I was treated with a modicum of human decency, and maybe even health insurance. Health insurance sure would have come in handy when my APPENDIX EXPLODED!!!

    This is the same Michael Moore who struck (sorta kinda) hard at the American health industry?  Who lavished uninhibited and unlimited love and affection on the Cuban medical system?  Really?

    Well, I can see why he hearts Castro so much….the dudes have a lot in common.  Aristocratic behavior and a desire for slave labor, to name just two.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 23 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  2. except for one briefing document that described what food the office must always have ...

    “Everything, in a bucket.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2008 03 23 at 12:39 AM • permalink

  3. The food bit should be easy:

    For the Lard Lord of the Left:

    Post-arrival at 1000: four Big Macs with large chips and a coke every three minutes until he departs
    (NOte to staff: very important! During meals these are his snacks for those long picoseconds in between bites)

    Elevenses (1100-1155): 12 family size Supreme pizzas with stuffed crust, extra cheese, extra meat and more extra cheese. 12 litres of coke

    Lunch (1200-1255): one 50lb chunk of thick-battered whale blubber deep-fried in pig fat. 45lb of chips. 24 litres of coke

    Oneses (1300-1355): One large antidue brass spittoon filled with macaroni cheese. 5 litres of jolt to keep the hardworking colossus of the left alert.

    1400: famished from a hard day at the office, the jubbling titan of the progressive world retired for dinner (1430-2330)

    Sound about right?

    MarkL
    canberra

    Morning

    Posted by MarkL on 2008 03 23 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  4. “Health insurance sure would have come in handy when my APPENDIX EXPLODED!!! (see 2nd picture below) And let me tell you, these hospitals & doctors are not very nice when you owe them money. Buncha greedy bas*ards! We need a new French Revolution, but in America!”

    So doctors saved his life, and he wants to guillotine them for sending him a bill?

    Yep, he fit right in with the rest of the Moorons.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2008 03 23 at 12:45 AM • permalink

  5. Is Borders a book shop?  I’ve always thought it was a library.  You only ever see people reading and drinking coffee on the lounges at Borders.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2008 03 23 at 01:53 AM • permalink

  6. I seem to recall a quote from some nice, misguided woman volunteer who had to deal with Moore when he arrived in her town to give a speech.

    “Never meet your heroes,” she muttered afterwards.

    Them’s words to live by, people. Except for you, Tim - meeting you was a joy!! [she said hastily]

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2008 03 23 at 01:54 AM • permalink

  7. Maybe they should call in the
    US Customs and Border Protection

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 23 at 01:59 AM • permalink

  8. The tale of woe told by this idiot is genuinely funny. he believed all the third-rate propaganda that intellectual microbes like Moore peddle, and found that he was actually a hypocritical lying scumbag, indeed close to being a sociopath.

    I’m sorry, but that is absolutely hilarious.

    Reality is such a bitch for lefties.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2008 03 23 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  9. #5 anthony_r

    Is Borders a book shop?  I’ve always thought it was a library.  You only ever see people reading and drinking coffee on the lounges at Borders.

    I’ve noticed that myself - and made use of those amenities a few times as well. A curious business model, wouldn’t you say?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 23 at 02:16 AM • permalink

  10. I’ve shopped at Borders once. Never again.

    I buy books online these days. It’s cheaper to get a hardcover with postage and to buy the paperback from Borders or Angus and Robertson or Dymocks.

    It’s also quicker at times!

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 03 23 at 02:38 AM • permalink

  11. Re: the ebay ad, I notice the genre is listed as Leftwing ranting.

    LOL! Says it all.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 03 23 at 02:39 AM • permalink

  12. Scholars theorize that this stanza was from an early part of the Epic, wherein Myron the Plumber examines a swollen waste-pipe.

    Scholars Discover Fragment  
    of the Lost Plumbing Epic:
    An Expert Renders His Opinion

    “I been through the toilet-clog wars;
    I’m guessing this bad boy ain’t yours.”
    He nodded and spit.
    “Friend, I know my shit;
    Them big ones, we call Michael Moores.”

    Posted by lyle on 2008 03 23 at 03:40 AM • permalink

  13. #10 - I’ve shopped at Borders once. Never again.

    Me too. Huge section of CDs but impossible to find anything interesting because of the crappy way they’re arranged.  I always buy CDs and books on line.  Here’s a plug for a good Australia/NZ site my wife and I use regularly - and free postage for orders over $50. No dearer than Amazon and faster delivery (and in some cases cheaper than Amazon)—

    Fishpond

    Posted by walterplinge on 2008 03 23 at 04:30 AM • permalink

  14. The Borders here in town actually isn’t that bad, as long as you know exactly what you’re looking for going in.  I find that I don’t actually read a lot of books these days though, so I’m not there all that often.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2008 03 23 at 05:29 AM • permalink

  15. What a joke that guy is?

    He rants on and on about not getting paid for working for big Mike and then he bitches about being asked to pay the guys who saved his own life.

    Makes you wonder who is the bigger scumbag - Chris of Mike Moore.

    I hope nobody buys his book.

    Posted by amortiser on 2008 03 23 at 06:10 AM • permalink

  16. A number of years ago, I bought a copy of Bob Woodward’s “Bush at War” from my local Borders.

    In a misguided attempy to make conversation, the salescrek asked me why I’d want to read about such an evil dictator. I let her proceed with the transaction, then just as she was about to call the next customer, I asked for a refund.

    She couldn’t process the refund by herself, and had to call her supervisor. When the supervisor asked why I was requesting a refund on a book I’d just purchased, I proclaimed that I was there to buy a book, not a political lecture, and the salesclerk was paid to operate a cash register, and not to dispense political opinion.

    Is it any wonder people buy online?

    Posted by Young and Free on 2008 03 23 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  17. Wow - and corporations with lefty sensibilities are usually so good with their finances.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 03 23 at 07:56 AM • permalink

  18. #16 - that is freaking awesome.

    You da man! (or, alternatively, “You go, girl!”)

    Posted by Dave S. on 2008 03 23 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  19. Re #16:  BUAWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!  Excellent, Y&F!  I doubt that the sales clerk learned her lesson, but still a good move.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 23 at 09:30 AM • permalink

  20. So doctors saved his life, and he wants to guillotine them for sending him a bill?

    Yep, he fit right in with the rest of the Moorons.

    Except that he wasn’t treated like one of the elite when he’s “pretty darn liberal” and all that crap.  Which is the real cause for his rant.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 23 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  21. I have a buddy who is a director of various vids and commercial pieces in Detroit. He says that anyone who works for Moore says he’s a big cocksucker and that he treats anyone who works for him like shit. Serves them right, actually. What were they thinking, working for a Riefenstahl-like propagandist?

    Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2008 03 23 at 09:43 AM • permalink

  22. #19

    “I doubt that the sales clerk learned her lesson”

    Oh I don’t.  Just the interruption plus the onset of close managerial supervision can be a day-ruiner.  I bet she chilled on the lecturing thing for at least the rest of that day, even if they probably DID get together an hour later to badmouth Y&F. 
      And even if it didn’t work out that way, you shouldn’t spoil my delusion that it did.

    Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 23 at 10:50 AM • permalink

  23. Hmmmmm.

    In my experience:

    If you willingly work for an a**hole, expect to get shit on.

    Posted by memomachine on 2008 03 23 at 11:43 AM • permalink

  24. Hmmmm.

    ““Never meet your heroes,” she muttered afterwards.”

    Personally I’ve met plenty of heroes.

    The trick is to know whether or not someone **actually is a hero**.

    Posted by memomachine on 2008 03 23 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  25. Hmmmmm.

    “I’ve noticed that myself - and made use of those amenities a few times as well. A curious business model, wouldn’t you say?”

    I don’t even bother buying computer books anymore.  I just read’em at Borders.

    Now usually I wouldn’t do that, and I don’t do this at Barnes & Noble where I buy my books first.  But Borders has a long history of trying to burying conservative books so I can’t say I feel at all sorry.

    Posted by memomachine on 2008 03 23 at 11:48 AM • permalink

  26. And even if it didn’t work out that way, you shouldn’t spoil my delusion that it did.

    My humblest apologies for ruining your delusions, fHF!  ;-P

    Doubtless it was the nadir of her day, and no doubt the subsequent supervisory counseling session was an eye opener.  It’s just that anyone clueless enough to sternly lecture a customer giving them money about their purchase has drunk deeply of the leftie Kool Aid indeed. 

    That’s the sort of “economic model behavior” I’d expect to see in Cuba, or the former Soviet Union.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 23 at 11:54 AM • permalink

  27. Heh heh.  Makes me wonder now, when Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, how many people were booing just because they know him personally.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 03 23 at 03:53 PM • permalink

  28. “Mr. Moore’s staff..”
    Looks like they taught him something else too - big corporation title protocol.

    Posted by Barrie on 2008 03 23 at 06:32 PM • permalink

  29. #18, 19, 22 and 26 . . . . you know what, apart from thinking how much fun it was to yank a lefty’s chain back, and harder, frankly I couldn’t care more what the salesclerk and her supervisor thought and whether her day was ruined or not. In my capitalist real world, money talks and they lost the sale that eventually pays their salary.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2008 03 23 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  30. The Mo bitches at Borders are in money trouble….

    And perhaps somewhere, Jonah Goldberg gets another guilty urge to chuckle….

    Posted by Apostic on 2008 03 23 at 08:16 PM • permalink

  31. There you go Y&F, spoiling my delusion like a great big capitalist meanie! 
    In my little world, that particular aborted sale was the final straw that snapped the business viability of Borders and began their slide into ruination and doom!  And here’s you, making like it’s no big deal.  Hmf.

    Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 24 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  32. Okay okay okay . . . . it was me. I took Borders down, right after I had my broker short-sell a bunch of their shares.

    Mwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2008 03 24 at 02:08 AM • permalink

  33. Page 1 of 1 pages

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.

Members:
Login | Register | Member List

Please note: you must use a real email address to register. You will be sent an account activation email. Clicking on the url in the email will automatically activate your account. Until you do so your account will be held in the "pending" list and you won't be able to log in. All accounts that are "pending" for more than one week will be deleted.