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Feeling your pain

(staffer in Motrin's social media monitoring department) God, I need an Advil.

The real reason for the economic meltdown

(Chairperson at a business meeting) The motion is carried. We will wind up operations, sell off the business and lay off our employees so we can all go home and watch the shiba inu puppy cam.

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The cell-ing of the President

(mother to disappointed daughter) No, kiddo, it's not an iPhone. But there would be plenty of kids - and at least one president-elect - who would be thrilled to get a Blackberry like that.

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Conversely, conversations are markets

(business reporter) Inbound links are down slightly against trackbacks, while comments edged up against Diggs in late-day trading.

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Assets to assets...

(grave marker with the epitaph, "He enhanced shareholder value")

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Then again, there's a not-bad benefits package

(workers entering office building; someone under a sign that reads 'CHECK YOUR CONSCIENCE HERE' is tearing out their hearts as they go by)

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The meeting kind of went downhill from there...

(boss at boardroom table) Sometimes I think it would be cool if a virus wiped out humanity, and the Earth could start again with a clean slate. Then it occurs to me, Hey! I own a factory that could ma

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Elect / Retry / Fail

(woman at voting machine) Dammit. I think I just voted for the banner ad.

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Why, "Reasons I Like Firefox", of course

(person at cafe table, to robot sitting next to him) Oh? What does RILF stand for?

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Can we move the tabs to the left? YES WE CAN!

(news commentator) It's a question of the pace of change. Is America really ready for a black president so soon after the Facebook and iGoogle interface changes?