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- Jdub7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+66An engineer dies and reports to hell. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies, "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."
Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?" - grymwulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57Lawyers with a sense of humor? What is this, a new breed of lawyer? I thought that was surgically removed at graduation!
- thelab101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21walmart, sony, microsoft....pay close attention to this. They just handled something like human beings, and got a lot of good press.
- Fluidity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I can't wait to sell my third life idea to those millions of suckers who have a miserable second life, I'm going to make a fortune!
- MrVisible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12That letter in itself is almost enough to get me to try out Second Life.
- ApontePR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Bravo, Second Life, I salute you!
- TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Walmart, Sony and Microsoft are not human beings, so they're not obligated to act like one.
- shadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10An attorney with a sense of humor?! I disbelieve!
*looks at dm*
Did I make my disbelieve illusion check? - rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18Sorry it just reminded me of this
How do you save a drowning lawyer? Take Your Foot of his head. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Bravo Linden Labs. This is the kind of 21st century thinking large companies need to partake in.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think this is a case of 'PR guys with a good imagination' than lawyers with a sense of humour
- deathdefyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's... *****... great....
- cyn0sure, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7How funny. Too bad this "game" is still silly and inhabited by mostly furries and other assorted weirdos.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well its good free publicity aint it?
- JohnnyHuh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pretty smart of them to respond with humor rather than attack dogs. They must have a good PR team.
- winnopeg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice none the less.
- ryanholiday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very brilliant PR move.
- skags, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@TheAkolyte
Yet according to the law they have all the rights and privileges of a human being; no matter how psychopathic they may become. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh absolutely
- imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I say we all digg this up. This is the way companies 'should' respond to parody sites.
- Y0tsuya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If their PR team can keep their lawyers on a tight leash, that's a good thing.
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm making a second life person now...I've been hearing about it for a long time now and this makes me want to go out and do it....my only hope is that is is diffrent from the Sims....
- Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For those who hadn't heard of GetAFirstLife.com and didn't see the Digg posting a few days ago:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/GetaFirstLife_com_A_Second_Life_Satire_Site - mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, what a breath of fresh air! I wish more companies would take this attitude towards running their business. It says a lot for the nature of the company and its employees.
- wiremonkeymommy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kudos LL!!
- Juano11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny, I have never once thought about buying/playing/inhabiting...whatever you do in second life, but this refreshingly different response from Linden kind of makes me want to send them some money and try out their product.
- lordfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ironic that at the end of the AP article we get..."... This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed"
- Xageroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I thought it was during the hazing process.
Covering my head in fear that the sky may soon be falling I'm still digging this to show my support! - kapul73, on 12/22/2007, -1/+0interestingly http://ysto.ru
- ykcor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0read the plaint-text news here: http://S.DR.AG/hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SECOND_LIFE_PARODY?SITE=CTNHR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
the original url is flooded with popups and slowloading banners :( - jonesy827, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1digg me down down down down
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1you got that joke from Readers Digest...the engineer one not the lawyer one....
- shadus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2... and here I thought that was the joke... you know, the bit about saving a drowning lawyer... NO ONE would do that... ;P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Look at all the people commenting praise for Second Life's "sense of humor". Please...more like "ad sense". Smart advertising, but tricky nonetheless.
- sodypop77, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0How about, get-a-url-spell-checker.com ...
And you probably wouldn't have mistakenly inserted an extra 'L' if you realized URL's are not case sensitive.
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