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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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