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Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation states that any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror.

Ahem .... :):):)

Uh, did anyone see the god-awful Maid in Manhattan? Google paid to have Jennifer Lopez tell her brat kid to "Google it."

"Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation states that any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror."

http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower2/ggostak.htm l

Those links again, done right:
http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Funhouse.html
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0285.html
http://www.kith.org/logos/wander/10.west/Buddy.htm l

736-5000 = PEnnsylvania 6-5000 = Glenn Miller 1940's song about calling the Pennsylvaina hotel near Penn Station in NYC. The hotel number is still the same!

Mac Refugee, Paper MCSE, Linux Wanna-be

Not all are management speak; many are just standard
IT industry speak/marketing speak:

"synergy"

"market forces"

"leverage" instead of "use"

"solution" instead of "product" or "suite of products"

"community" for any group, regardless of whether
they have any real commonality besides using a single
vendor's product(s)

"strategy"

Here's one list

and another

Oh, and try the Web Economy Bullshit Generator

Or PEnnsylvania-six-five-thousand.

This is further explained at X is for Xchange, which relates that the original setup was three-letter/four digit; that is, PENnsylvania-five-thousand.

Glenn Miller (who got on a stamp) finally found continuous success after years of struggle when he formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra to play at the Cafe Rouge [realaudio] in the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1938. I believe this year H2K2 will be using the Cafe Rouge space.

The Glenn Miller song PEnnsylvania-6-5000 (in which the only lyrics were the band shouting "Pennsylvania Six Five-Oh-Oh-Oh"--the Brian Setzer orchestra later recorded the song with fuller lyrics) was one of his band's first major hits. He disbanded the orchestra in 1942 to form a band for the US Air Force troops for World War II. His plane was lost at sea on December 14, 1944.

As The Telephone EXchange Name Project explains, both PEnnsylvania-6-5000 and the John O'Hara novel/Liz Taylor movie BUtterfield 8 (which garnered her a Best Actress Oscar) are named after telephone exchanges. In Butterfield 8, Taylor plays a call girl reachable at that number (the movie poster is especially evocative).

--Adam Brate

But, the sad reality is that truth doesn't sell and bullshit does. Stupid sheeple.