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Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 12:57 AM
No horsing around. No bullshit. It is time to get down to business.
Someone down the line made the mistake of tossing out our Smart Phones in favor of blowing nearly two fucking million dollars on carrier pigeons.
You know, our entire budget.
As most of you should already know, there is no viable way to market these pigeons to #GenMobile. It's time to think outside of the box; how do we monetize these damned birds?
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:12 AM
*Loather's cellphone rings*
Hey it's Regansby, traffic is hell and my cat died and I'm totally not trying to skip out on this meeting and I started typing this joke then realised you wouldn't actually receive this because you just got off the metaphorical phone telling us we don't have phones anymore. Anyway enjoy getting this by pigeonmail in an hour or so.
*click*
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:13 AM
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Johnson asked the phone company for the GPS data and is now hunting the birds via hot air balloon and a sniper rifle. His lackeys are forced to predict the bird's flight patterns and catch the phones falling from the sky.
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:24 AM
Damn it, no! We spent everything on these pigeons. We have to turn these birds into gold. Tell Johnson to put the rifle down before I put him down!
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:27 AM
And tell Regansby they're fired!
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:29 AM
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"I can't let you do that, Sir."
From 900000000 feet up, in a spaceship, Johnson fires his sniper rifle at the boss' hand. It will take 5mins for the Boss to get the reply, and 5mins1s for the Boss to realize that he can't move his hand
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 01:57 AM
This just in - a carrier pigeon carrying flash drives actually transfers data significantly faster than a smart phone. All we need to do is market our data services towards bulk data rather than repeated, smaller packets as is the case in text. Want to send your entire video library to your friend? We can do that.
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 02:23 AM
What, really? It's faster? This changes everything! Brilliant work, sir!
But how are we going to get continued payments from our customers? It's not like a bird carrying a flash drive needs a data plan...
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 02:28 AM
Oh hey, guess I beat my mailpigeon into work.
I think we could make it a distance-based plan for payment? We essentially offer an on-demand service which can rack up surcharges when deliveries are requested last-minute.
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 02:34 AM
But we can't do something like that if everyone's got their own pigeon, right? They could just do whatever they want with it, and we wouldn't be able to charge them for it.
So would we have, like, a pigeon depot where people can show up with flash drives and request a data transfer? Isn't that just... isn't that just mail?
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 03:04 AM
Not if we give it a catchy enough name!
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 03:16 AM
if we used hawks we could call it SCREEmail!
How much would it cost to sell our existing pigeon stocks and reinvest in birds of prey?
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 03:20 AM
No, wait - you know how they call it snail mail? This can be Quail Mail!
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 03:29 AM
Flighty Fliers for Hire
says Johnson, loudly over the intercom hoping not to get Fired
The memo said '"Cellphones" "birds"' and his incompetent lackeys led him to believe that the company cellphones were inside the birds. Now, he's being told that the birds will also be delivering mail to offset the cost of buying birds that ate all their cellphones.
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 07:16 AM
Frequent Flier Files!
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-08-2014, 07:51 AM
Aha! So THAT'S your plan! At last, my corporate espionage has paid off! YourCompetitorsCorp will pay top dollar for this tip. Now I just need to get the message out of the building somehow...
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-09-2014, 11:29 AM
Why not join our Quail Mail(?) Early Access Program? For only a thou-- twenty-thousand US dollars (or two-point-five thousand per month for the next twelve months) you too can attain access to the pre-alpha release of our highly coveted Bulk Data Delivery Service Experience! Buy in at the hundred-kay tier and receive your very own PCP! (Personal Carrier Pidge) Supplieslimitedqualitynotassureddealornodeal?
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RE: Important Business Meeting- MANDATORY!!
12-09-2014, 02:58 PM
Hey boss, sorry I had to check in via this pudgy pigeon. I apologize if this pigeon is violently twitching or smells like crystal meth to you, I totally wasn't making said meth in the bathroom when I got in a tug-o-war with this bird over a joint, honest!
That was the dude in the stall before me. I tried to cook bacon and eggs with the lab and that is it I swear! Sure I smoked the entire batch, but can you blame me?
Regardless I'm getting sidetracked, I regret to inform you I'm taking sick leave until further notice because this stuff was just loaded with cyanide for some reason. If the janitor offers you 'toilet rollies', just say nonononono! RE: these dumb birds, has anybody contacted John Woo's animal training person I guess? I'm waaaay too poisoned and admittedly high to think of the details here.
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