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A humorous yet telling look at how Google has imposed a world tax on business
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There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.
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You see that dude? The one with the long hair, jeans, a bandanna, and eating a banana? Well there is something very special about him. Now because you coughed up $0.99 to buy this article I will reveal a secret about him. It’s a sort of a world wide scoop really. You see he is the world’s first D.O.G . Yes, that’s right. He has the very first doctorate issued by The University of Google (UOG) in Googlegook. Not only can he put Dr. before his name but his Doctor of Googlegookology degree is frantically sought after by just about every decent sized company in America anxious to at least maintain their current level of sales. It’s no longer MBA’s that are headhunted. The talent scouts are waiting outside the UOG and literally kidnapping them as
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