Happy April fool's day!

Evil.

Very evil.

LOL...

Good one. At first I was "OH NO! WHAT THE @#%*!" Then I went andstarted to laugh.

Ok, I'm going back to bed now...wake up April 2nd.

Not a good way to wake up on a Sunday morning. Good one though

It's way past April Fool's day here in Australia, and I still fell for it
Good one!

It was the first thing I read today...I was like WHAT???! Very funny! Happy April Fool's!

Aw, you focker. ;d)

Good one. Quite cruel, but still good.

So, would that be bad?

I had to look, even knowing full well it's April Fools Day - early this morning I listened to the National Public Radio spoof on cell phone ring tones in NYC and nearly fell for that one too. Check it out @ www.npr.org Go to Weekend Edition.

Mark! Dang! April Fools never even occurred to me. But,

Sheesh, you guys bit too easily.

The REAL story was that the BirdyBeak Pen Company merged their extra-fine point/accountant inks division into the ZaubernDonUTakeMinenFinenPointenFPfrmME ink company effective April 1, 2007. The merger was conducted and finalized because there was too much red ink from said ZaubernDonUTakeMinenFinenPointenFPfrmME pens floating the balance sheets of poorly managed companies.

Henceforth, all inks and pens from ZaubernDonUTakeMinenFinenPointenFPfrmME shall only write with BalanceSheet Black. That is the remarkable non-permanent ink choice of accountants worldwide when attempting to hide income. The ink was a product developed in the rather dubious labs of the Magical Managment School, makes all balance sheets zero out to no taxable profit.

Magical Management was also responsible for Voodoo Economics and the recent spate of huge increases in wealth for the top one percent of the top one percent.

Needless to say, accountants not using the non-bulletproof BalanceSheet Black shall require decent body armor when representing their "connected" clients in certain criminally connected neighborhoods of some very large cities.

The sale was supervised and concluded at the world headquarters of the DrownedInScarlet Accounting Firm, headquartered in the ink flooded basement of the Used To Be Artic, Now It's Bermuda Building, located somewhere along the Gulf Stream. That is, if the ice shelf it was perched upon can be located. Staf of the DrownedInScarlet Accounting Firm are fervently praying for global cooling, or a cruise ship with enough room for all employees.

It's doubtful the latter will be of much help. The last Cruise ship that approached was waved off as the stranded, and no longer rosily inked employees held out for a ship without an Elvis impersonator.

They're already owned by Newell Rubbermaid, so they'd just be moving from one giant corporation to another, and I'm not sure which one's worst.