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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Fax-ed Up Beyond All Recognition
I'm sorting faxes when I notice another advertisement. This one is for the 8th annual Government Performance Summit, which bills itself as "The Most Comprehensive Government Management and Measurement Event of the Year!" Now it may be grammatically correct to end a sentence containing the phrase 'government management and measurement' with an exclamation mark, but I don't think it's ethical.
We get quite a few of these sorts of advertisements and part of my job is to dispose of them. (Exciting work, huh?) I did get one last fall that I've kept on file. It was a booking form from Entertainment With Class, a company in Maryland. It includes contact information, details of the event, legal disclaimer, and a list of the entertainers available. For example, the female entertainers include Sparkle, Puddin', Brown Sugar, and Dallas. The male entertainers include Nubian King, Razor, Sexecutioner, and Wiggles.
Clearly, Wiggles is the classy one.
Keynote Speakers [the flyer reads]So, wait, maybe there's something in an old Miss Manners column I haven't read that suggests we address the Secretary of Agriculture as "Hon. Mike Johanns," but the deputy director of OMB gets an 'honorable' and the associate director of OPM doesn't? And to add insult to injury, Clay Johnson gets his acronym spelled out while Marta Perez doesn't. What did the Office of Personnel Management do to offend these people?
- Hon. Mike Johanns,
Secretary of Agriculture, USDA- Hon. Clay Johnson,
Deputy Director for Management,
White House Office of Management and Budget- Hon. Jo Anne B. Barnhart,
Commisioner (sic), Social Security Administration- Marta Brito Perez,
Associate Director, Human Capital Leadership & Merit
System Accountability, OPM
We get quite a few of these sorts of advertisements and part of my job is to dispose of them. (Exciting work, huh?) I did get one last fall that I've kept on file. It was a booking form from Entertainment With Class, a company in Maryland. It includes contact information, details of the event, legal disclaimer, and a list of the entertainers available. For example, the female entertainers include Sparkle, Puddin', Brown Sugar, and Dallas. The male entertainers include Nubian King, Razor, Sexecutioner, and Wiggles.
Clearly, Wiggles is the classy one.
maybe she just doesnt get an "honorabale" because her name is Marta Brito Perez
Posted by@ 4:56 PM
You mean Entertainment with Class!!Surely they deserve an exclamation point (or two). - Wiggles, UT version
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I hear that Bush is denying that he ever saw Brokeback Mountain with Jack Abramoff, who no longer an Hon. in front of his name either. - Hon. UT readerPost a Comment
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