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SAVE THE SERBS

It’s Webdiary’s word of the day:

subsidiariaries

Use it in a sentence! Meanwhile, Webdiariary managing director David Roffey has startling news:

I’m currently in the UK discussing, inter alia, possibly being chief financial adviser on the privatisation of Telekom Srbija.

Good Lord! Do those poor Serbs know they’re dealing with a man whose management of a blog oversaw losses of $45,000 in just three months and sent its owner broke? How many bold tags will he chew through with an annual revenue of 617 million Euros*

* An amount sufficient to keep Webdiary online for 5,500 years.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/05/2006 at 02:31 AM
  1. Sounds as though he could have been the chief financial adviser for the NSW Government in negotiations with Cross City Tunnel!

    Posted by Seneca on 2006 01 05 at 03:56 AM • permalink

  2. What’s he doing working for the Serbs? I thought the Serbs were the only people worse than the Jews in the eyes of the Left…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 05 at 04:20 AM • permalink

  3. Subsidiariaries.

    Subsidiaries of subsidiaries are subsidiariaries.

    Now I have a headache.

    :^þ

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 05 at 04:24 AM • permalink

  4. What a bureaucratic wet dream the Small Business Act must be. 

    Bad law will be treated accordingly.

    Posted by slammer on 2006 01 05 at 04:25 AM • permalink

  5. Actually, as a (presumed) lefty, how can he be involved in a privatisation of a telecom?  Does Webdiary support sale of Telstra now?

    Posted by Seneca on 2006 01 05 at 04:25 AM • permalink

  6. Seneca,

    Does Webdiary support sale of Telstra now?

    Only if there’s a buck in it for Roffey.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 05 at 04:26 AM • permalink

  7. Subsidiariaries are the product of a journalist who works at night.

    ``Diary’’ comes from the same root as ``journal,’’ namely Latin for ``day’’ (think ``diurnal’‘).

    The ``sid’’ however is star, which I gather replaces the sun ; hence ``journalist under the stars.’‘

    The famous practicioners are called subluniariaries.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 01 05 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  8. Wasn’t diariaria a medical condition?

    Posted by TimT on 2006 01 05 at 04:43 AM • permalink

  9. Telekom Srbija
    Informacije o firmi, uslugama, ISDN i mobilnoj telefoniji, i telefonski imenik
    sa mogucnoscu pretrazivanja, webdiariarie servicariarije.

    Posted by tmciolek on 2006 01 05 at 05:11 AM • permalink

  10. What they meant to say was that they are a really only just sub dairy, ie they are milking far less than mighty Mangos dairy (which is now a mighty non dairy) which therefore must mean they are returning Mango juice back into the grid and receiving enormous credits from the Them.

    Clearly this is efficiency at work !

    Posted by rog2 on 2006 01 05 at 05:54 AM • permalink

  11. My wife and I were writing our personal journals when the old colliery tunnels below the house finally gave way; worst subsidiariaries in many a long year.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 01 05 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  12. it’s probably just a cover story - he’s obviously really going to try to hunt down radovan karadzic & ratko mladic

    Posted by KK on 2006 01 05 at 07:57 AM • permalink

  13. #12 Given the left’s track record on war criminals, I bet he’s trying to track them down so he can nominate them for the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 01 05 at 08:32 AM • permalink

  14. It’s impossible to tell whether global warming proponents are documenting a daily rise in sea level or subsidiariaries of the land due to astrological effects…

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2006 01 05 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  15. Spiny Norman:

    What’s he doing working for the Serbs? I thought the Serbs were the only people worse than the Jews in the eyes of the Left…

    You’d think that, but nope.

    The far left now loves the Serbs and Milosevic, and have become (unsurprisingly), huge apologists for genocide and ethnic cleansing.

    Great stuff on Oliver Kamm’s site about Noam Chomsky’s and Ed Herman’s love affair with Milosevic.

    Tim just posted on another Milosevic loving far-left nutter, Neil Clark:

    http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/journalist_makes_a_new_friend/

    Apparently being pro-genocide is not his only flaw.

    And then of course, there’s another equally unhinged Clark, Ramsey, who’s Milosevic’s biggest American cheerleader, when he’s not fellating Saddam.

    Posted by SoCalJustice on 2006 01 05 at 10:48 AM • permalink

  16. #13 of course

    btw i’ve emailed Telekom Srbija to ask if it’s true roffey is working on their privatisation, & sent them the webdiary link - maybe others would like to do it too
    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

    Posted by KK on 2006 01 05 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  17. ‘Subsidiariaries”.  So that’s what $43,499.66 spent on “content production and editing” buys you.

    Posted by Conrad on 2006 01 05 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  18. Aren’t subsidiariaries corporations owned by a holding compaompany?

    Geez, another minute of this and I’m going to start yodeling.

    Posted by paco on 2006 01 05 at 12:31 PM • permalink

  19. Subsidiariaries

    I’m beginning to suspect where the vowels missing from the Serbian language went.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 01 05 at 01:43 PM • permalink

  20. Roffey may have his eyes on another hot, Serbian property.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 01 05 at 03:21 PM • permalink

  21. I can’t help it.  Subdiariaries makes me think of people keeping diaries about their diaries.  Kind of like WebDiary, only little plaid-covered books instead.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 01 05 at 05:49 PM • permalink

  22. I’m currently in the UK discussing, inter alia, possibly being chief financial adviser on the privatisation of Telekom Srbija.

    Shouldn’t that be under Allah?

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 05 at 07:07 PM • permalink

  23. If anyone has trouble sleeping the Small Business Act can be found here.  Its objective is, apart from the usual US fixation with combating monopolistic behaviour, positive discrimination for the perceived disadvantage.  The Act helpfully defines classes of people that can be disadvantaged: groups include, but are not limited to, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Indian tribes, Asian Pacific Americans, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and other minorities.

    Although, curiously, the Act starts of by stating that it is the declared policy of Congress to promote small business for ventures such as the production of food and fiber, ranching, and raising of livestock, aquaculture, and all other farming and agricultural related industries, it does cover Defense programs.

    However, the minimum 23 per cent appears to have no stronger status than a goal for all federal expenditure.  Where practical concerns prohibit specific programs need not meet that goal.  Instead each agency has a goal that represents the maximum practical opportunity for small business participation ( the best way to find ths is to search the long document for 23 per cent).

    In short I agree with slammer.

    Posted by noir on 2006 01 05 at 07:15 PM • permalink

  24. Jeez, Norman, are you out of the loop!  The Serbs are now officially designated victims of Western Imperialism.  That Slobbo, he really stood up to The Man, man!  He’s like a white Marion Barry except that he’s killed more people.

    And the “people” he so-called killed were all running dog lackey - uh, I mean gay bashing racist red staters!  Who probably voted for Bush on their way down the mine shaft that last day of their lives.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 01 05 at 08:47 PM • permalink

  25. Just goes the show that the Left is happy enough to turn on Muslims who are perceived to be in the pocket of the West (i.e. Iraq and Bosnia). Of course, not that it’s a big surprise or anything to find the Left’s love of Islam to be nothing more than their usual ends-justify-the-means approach that will be discarded as soon as the majority of Muslims in a country can’t be used as a political weapon against the West anymore.

    Posted by PW on 2006 01 05 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  26. Oh waiter-there’s an extra “iar” in my latte..”
    “don’t worry sir we won’t charge you for it”.

    Posted by crash on 2006 01 06 at 05:34 AM • permalink

  27. o/t Sunnis have kidnapped some Sheite people in Iran…

    Posted by crash on 2006 01 06 at 06:47 AM • permalink

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