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Old 12-29-08, 06:43 AM
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Apple Cans MTB Rider That Thinks Different

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Among the floutings of convention cited in Barlow's Apple employee file: developing a pulley system to store his mountain bike above his workstation
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Sure, it sounds like the guy might have been a little different,
Apple Fires MTB Riding Employee, but isn't that what Apple is all about, thinking differently, marching to a different drum?

Do any of your employers let you customize your office to accommodate your bicycle riding? I mean, sure you have to abide by the rules and stuff, it needs to be presentable.
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Um, the onion.
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Do I even break up this joke thread?
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Another victim of Onionization.
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Originally Posted by ilmooz
Another victim of Onionization.
In other words, nothing to cry over.
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No no, The Onion got bought out by Fox Corp, now they don't do satire anymore.

Wink wink
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Don't know which is funnier- the article or the fact that someone read it and thought it was true. Definitely well done satire.
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Originally Posted by StrangeWill
No no, The Onion got bought out by Fox Corp, now they don't do satire anymore.

Wink wink
Sounds like another Onion story. "Wink wink" is cute though
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Originally Posted by buzzman
Don't know which is funnier- the article or the fact that someone read it and thought it was true. Definitely well done satire.
Especially since it was dobber that posted it.
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+1 for the Onion.
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That's what's great about a good Onion article for a moment or two they got you.
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Originally Posted by CB HI
Especially since it was dobber that posted it.
Wait, you mean Apple didn't have a problem with his Jim Henson desktop?
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Originally Posted by dobber
Wait, you mean Apple didn't have a problem with his Jim Henson desktop?

Yes, Dobber, but there is a Santa Claus.
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Originally Posted by buzzman
Yes, Dobber, but there is a Santa Claus.
Well duh, where else would the presents come from
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Originally Posted by dobber
Well duh, where else would the presents come from
Cinco Claus
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Look at the Onion on the Apple employee. Must be from riding her MTB....
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