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    Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M. 9/25/09

    "According to the panel, the final event will occur at 3:32 p.m., when a tourist, believing the impressive structure to be a giant mall, will enter Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, and, not finding what he is looking for, ask where "the damn Radio Shack is supposed to be."

    "The man, dressed in Crocs and sweatpants and determined by researchers to be the final catalyst in humanity's epic downfall, will then loudly expel gas.

    "This horrible but inevitable day has been a long time coming," said Davidson, before picking up a black marker and, seemingly without thought or intent, drawing a long, thick phallus on his chart. "And by the looks of things, it's almost here."

    "Some analysts believe the coming cultural sinkhole—the most intellectually and spiritually degrading moment conceivable by science or philosophy—will signal the end of mankind's decay and lead to a steady upward climb. Still, they warned, the event itself could be catastrophically lowbrow.

    "With each passing minute, we're getting closer to a second Dark Ages," said noted art critic Mark Lefevre, tearing out pages from his report, folding each into a paper airplane, and tossing decades of hard work around the room. "Unless something is done to protect what little sophistication and refinement we have left, Western society may soon regress to a point of no return. We need to act, and act fast."

    "Come on," added the two-time MacArthur "genius grant" recipient, before stripping down to his undergarments and brandishing an automatic assault rifle. "Let's get 'er done!"

    "Despite the panel's findings, many are skeptical that humanity will reach its lowest depths on Friday, claiming the humiliations are likely to continue as ever-smaller terrier breeds begin to outsmart their owners, and disgraced former congressman Tom DeLay appears in the new season of Dancing With The Stars.

    "Most chillingly, many agreed, is that while Michael Crichton's death has been a positive step, Dan Brown remains very much alive.

    "We're talking about a society in which the name Newton is now more often associated with a fig-filled dessert than the scientist who revolutionized modern thought," biologist Howard Thurston said. "The human mind is endlessly inventive, and our species will always find new ways to completely discredit and embarrass itself."

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/98080
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    Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

    Will I still be able to watch "Two and a Half Men" on TV?

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      Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

      hey what do you think about 2012? Do we need to move to Denver

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        Chicago Museum of Art? When I went there, all they had were these statues and old paintings. I asked them if they had a portrait of Elvis on velvet or that cute picture of those dogs playing poker. They didn't have either one, and they call themselves an art museum. They even got mad when I asked. Can you believe that? :p

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          Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

          Originally posted by bcassill View Post
          Chicago Museum of Art? When I went there, all they had were these statues and old paintings. I asked them if they had a portrait of Elvis on velvet or that cute picture of those dogs playing poker. They didn't have either one, and they call themselves an art museum. They even got mad when I asked. Can you believe that? :p
          i went looking for a sculpture of the chicago museum made out of cheese... like this...



          didn't have one! you call that a museum?

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            Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

            When my last employer sent me to Europe, to hear my French hosts tell it, much worse[*] than this happens many times a day at various upscale French restaurants.


            Originally posted by Jim Nickerson View Post
            "According to the panel, the final event will occur at 3:32 p.m., when a tourist, believing the impressive structure to be a giant mall, will enter Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, and, not finding what he is looking for, ask where "the damn Radio Shack is supposed to be."
            http://www.theonion.com/content/node/98080
            ???
            WTHeck?
            When did Radio Shack become so low-brow?
            ?????

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              Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

              Don't be upset. The Onion loves to rip the Shack!;)

              http://www.theonion.com/content/news...figure_out_how

              Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business

              FORT WORTH, TX—Despite having been on the job for nine months, RadioShack CEO Julian Day said Monday that he still has "no idea" how the home electronics store manages to stay open.


              CEO Julian Day

              "There must be some sort of business model that enables this company to make money, but I'll be damned if I know what it is," Day said. "You wouldn't think that people still buy enough strobe lights and extension cords to support an entire nationwide chain, but I guess they must, or I wouldn't have this desk to sit behind all day.

              The retail outlet boasts more than 6,000 locations in the United States, and is known best for its wall-sized displays of obscure-looking analog electronics components and its notoriously desperate, high-pressure sales staff. Nevertheless, it ranks as a Fortune 500 company, with gross revenues of over $4.5 billion and fiscal quarter earnings averaging tens of millions of dollars.

              "Have you even been inside of a RadioShack recently?" Day asked. "Just walking into the place makes you feel vaguely depressed and alienated. Maybe our customers are at the mall anyway and don't feel like driving to Best Buy? I suppose that's possible, but still, it's just...weird."

              After taking over as CEO, Day ordered a comprehensive, top-down review of RadioShack's administrative operations, inventory and purchasing, suppliers, demographics, and marketing strategies. He has also diligently pored over weekly budget reports, met with investors, taken numerous conference calls with regional managers about "circulars or flyers or something," and even spent hours playing with the company's "baffling" 200-In-One electronics kit. Yet so far none of these things have helped Day understand the moribund company's apparent allure.

              "Even the name 'RadioShack'—can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?" Day said. "What is that, some kind of World War II terminology? Are ham radio operators still around, even? Aren't we in the digital age?"

              "Well, our customers are out there somewhere, and thank God they are," Day added.

              One of Day's theories about RadioShack's continued solvency involves wedding DJs, emergency cord replacement, and off-brand wireless telephones. Another theory entails countless RadioShack gift cards that sit unredeemed in their recipients' wallets. Day has even conjectured that the store is "still coasting on" an enormous fortune made from remote-control toy cars in the mid-1970s.


              Day admitted, however, that none of these theories seems particularly plausible.

              "I once went into a RadioShack location incognito in order to gauge customer service," Day said. "It was about as inviting as a visit to the DMV. For the life of me, I couldn't see anything I wanted to buy. Finally, I figured I'd pick up some Enercell AA batteries, though truthfully they're not appreciably cheaper than the name brands."

              "I know one thing," Day continued. "If Sony and JVC start including gold-tipped cable cords with their products, we're screwed."

              In the cover letter to his December 2006 report to investors, "Radio Shack: Still Here In The 21st Century," Day wrote that he had no reason to believe that the coming year would not be every bit as good as years past, provided that people kept on doing things much the same way they always had.

              Despite this cheerful boosterism, Day admitted that nothing has changed during his tenure and he doesn't exactly know what he can do to improve the chain.

              "I'd like to capitalize on the store's strong points, but I honestly don't know what they are," Day said. "Every location is full of bizarre adapters, random chargers, and old boom boxes, and some sales guy is constantly hovering over you. It's like walking into your grandpa's basement. You always expect to see something cool, but it never delivers."

              Added Day: "I may never know the answer. No matter how many times I punch the sales figures into this crappy Tandy desk calculator, it just doesn't add up."

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                Re: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.

                we reached the nadir of usa civilization the red cross issued credit cards to hurricane katrina victims.

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