Wackiest regular* paragraph I've read all week
*Not counting the NYT's wacky graf describing a wildly plotted book.
From Wired's May story about Radio Shack, a paragraph discussing the chain's chairman and CEO in the 1960s and 1970s, Charles Tandy:
Craftiness was in Tandy's bloodline. He cut his teeth helming the family business, the Tandy Leather Company, which sold leather and leatherworking tools to veterans' hospitals and Boy Scouts. The cigar-chomping Texan was the kind of eccentric, larger-than-life executive that any modern PR handler would keep tightly muzzled. He celebrated his 60th birthday by riding a rented elephant around the grounds of his mansion, and he kept a plastic breast on his desk that made a gong sound when he pressed the nipple. It was how he called for more coffee.
GONG. From the same issue, who else wants a gramophone?
July 10th, 2010 at 11:00 AM
What the what? (Also where can I get a boob gong that brings me coffee?)
August 16th, 2010 at 7:54 AM
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