Sunday, September 27, 2015

U Maximegalon: This blog & Twitter account are unnecessary

When the K-Landnews Random Research (RR) team discontinued its random contributions, the team left a wrinkled post-it note in the trash, which indicated that most of their insights had come from MISPWOSO, the University of Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.

The note also had the cryptic, hasty scribble "MISPWOSO = Wikipedia?", which confused and upset the blogster until a series of celebrity tweets needed urgent attention, thus predictable and reliably crushing the budding curiosity.

Months later, gathering up dusty piles of papers, the blogster noticed a manila envelope under the pot of petunias on the basement interior window sill. The RR team had left the petunia behind, and the presence of the manila envelope had been assumed to be purely practical, to soak up water spills.

Peeking into the envelope, the blogster found a couple of sheets of paper, heavily damaged by water stains, sticking together over about half the surface, the ink smudged. Having carefully separated the two sheets, the letterhead was barely decipherable as MISPWOSO under a seal which looked a bit like a Stealie, but with the red, white, and blue replaced with a petunia. The lower part got torn off during the separation, so it might just have been a plain old oval with a pot of petunia in the center. Stealie sounds better, though.

What was left of the text made it clear that the RR team had asked MISPWOSO for an analysis of the K-Landnews blog and Twitter account.

A paragraph with the title Executive Summary at the beginning of the analysis read:
Both publishing [unreadable] vastly [unreadable]. We therefore recommend you to [unreadable] and bail [unreadable]. We have yet to see another set of accounts as superfluous as this [unreadable]. The [unreadable] responsible has no idea of modern communications branding requirements and appears to [unreadable] no effort to cater to the two most important educational segments, the JDs and MBAs, who obviously [unreadable]. Mixing nuggets of journalism with [unreadable].

We'll spare ourselves the Detailed Analysis part, which, obviously, corroborated the findings of the executive summary in a rather painful manner.

The harsh assessment aside, Maximegalon appears to be doing great on Earth, with a t-shirt franchise, an honorable mention in a book by Douglas Adams, and lots of web pages about the institute.

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