You are so right about that ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:43:43 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Brands that may disappear in 2011
Keith, I just hope that it doesn't blow up in his face the same way it did with Tony Whatzisface, BP's CEO. Granted, he is getting hit harder because he's one of the top dogs, and his behavior just after his being relieved of the detail (going to a yachting race) wasn't exactly sympathetic, but the folks in the Gulf are already angry because BP's hosing them on the promised payments. His being the face of BP, John Q Public or not, could result in his face being the center of a number of bullseyes.. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: I listened to an interview with him and he says he definitely volunteered for it because he wanted to help his home. Buddy is a geologist by trade, I believe, so isn't exactly groomed for the job of PR spokesman, but wanted to help. He hasn't lived in the area for years, but his family is still there. He spent time to help his mother after Katrina, and had to come back now. I think BP took him frankly because he's black and from the area, making them look both sensitive and progressive at the same time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 7:27:12 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Brands that may disappear in 2011 Oh, yeah, I've seen that. I really don't believe for a second that he "volunteered" for the detail. That's like volunteering to search a minefield while astride a pogo stick. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: Have you seen that new commercial that they have been running? They have a claim hotline headed by a brotha. Dude may want to do a good job but that is just ASKING for trouble. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: "This shouldn't hurt BP that much overall." Unfortunately. I'm watching my local news right now, about a restaurant that may have to lay off workers because they specialize in Gulf Coast seafood, which they aren't getting because one of their primary suppliers had to shut its doors indefinitely because of the spill, and lay off its entire staff. And they haven't seena dime of that money that BP's so reluctant to hand out. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: This shouldn't hurt BP that much overall. They have been around a long time and have thousands of wells. What they have spent so far on the clean up is only about 1/3 of what they make in a quarter just from oil in this region. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: Honestly, the only reason that I know that two of those ten still exist is because my mother gets Reader's Digest and BP -- well, need I say? Now, if BP decides to go away of its own accord after ceding all of its corporate coffers to those affected by the spill, I won't cry... On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Kelwyn < ravena...@yahoo.com > wrote: When I see an article like this I always think of the "futuristic" movie "Bladerunner" where most of the companies of the future no longer exist. (from Wikipedia) RCA, which at one time was the United States' leading consumer electronics and communications conglomerate, was bought out by one-time parent GE in 1985, and dismantled. Atari, which dominated the home video game market when the film came out, never recovered from the next year's downturn in the industry, and by the 1990s had ceased to represent anything more than a brand, a back catalogue of games and some legacy computers. Atari today is an entirely different firm, using the former company's name. Cuisinart similarly went bankrupt in 1989, though it lives on under new ownership. The Bell System monopoly was broken up that same year, and most of the resulting Regional Bell operating companies have since changed their names and merged back with each other and other companies to form the new AT&T. Pan Am suffered the terrorist bombing/destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 and after a decade of mounting losses, finally went bankrupt in 1991 with the falloff in overseas travel caused by the Gulf War. ~rave? http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/110018/10-brands-that-may-disappear-in-2011 24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that may disappear, which includes Readers Digest, Kia Motors, Dollar Thrifty, Zale , Blockbuster, T-Mobile, BP Plc , RadioShack , Merrill Lynch and Moody's. -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
