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- From: Michael Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>
- To: internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
- Subject: Not enough profanity in business books
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:57:15 -0500
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38665,00.html
For those of you who don't get enough profanity in the normal, boring business books, check this review excerpt from Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts by Philip
J Kaplan:
Total number of profanities (excluding coined terms like "douchemonkey"): 125
Greatest number of references to "ass-palming" on a single page: 3
Instances in which the author suddenly makes reference to pornography for no discernible reason: 5
Number of pornography vendor endorsements: 2
Percentage of scatological references in which the author uses a euphemism for excrement (e.g., "dingleberry" and "craptacular") rather than a profanity: 36
Number of verbs or participles thereof that relate to copulation: 50
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Michael Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com
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Not enough profanity in business books,
Michael Czeiszperger, 03/20/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Not enough profanity in business books, John Beimler, 03/20/2002
- Re: Not enough profanity in business books, Bill Geschwind, 03/20/2002
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