File this one under coincidences with a question mark.

Go back to 2011, and HP purchases a company called Autonomy for $11B. Within a year of the sale, HP writes down the value of Autonomy by $8.8B. HP sues the CEO and CFO for fraud.

In June of this year (2024)... a jury find the CEO and CFO innocent.

On Saturday, the CFO is struck and killed by a carwhile jogging in the UK.

On Monday, the CEO and several others go down on his yacht off Sicily on Monday. He and his daughter are still missing and presumed dead.

Karma? Rough week to have made billions selling Autonomy.

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Posted: Oct 5, 2017 - 4:23am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

And you know it's a big ol' mystery-meat mcnugget, but I sometimes crave it anyway. I used to be a Swanson's conna sewer. Only one time did I make the mistake of getting the Hungry-Man Turkey Dinner on thanksgiving, turn on the game and cry. Always planned some sort of social gathering since then. Sometimes we'd all cry together, but together.

i think swanson's secret was that super-tasty, highly addictive, beaver brown msg gravy (emotional gravy = band name)

you could put that on an old boot and it would be delicious

edit {#Lol}

Salisbury steak

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noun

ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like ahamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.

Origin of Salisbury steak

1895-1900, Americanism; named after J. H. Salisbury (1823-1905), U.S.dietitian, who promoted the eating of such steaks

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Word Origin and History for Salisbury steak

1897, from J.H. Salisbury (1823-1905), U.S. physician and food specialist,who promoted it. Incorrect use for "hamburger" traces to World War I andthe deliberate attempt to purify American English of German loan words.

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Posted: Oct 4, 2017 - 1:58pm

Proclivities wrote:

That reminds me of the scene at the end of "Broadway Danny Rose", where Woody Allen serves all of his "talent" TV dinners (calls it "frozen turkey") on Thanksgiving. The blind xylophone player complains that the cranberry sauce is dry and one of the other guys tells him he's eating the mashed potatoes. There's something sad and pathetic about it, but the people are happy.

I better not watch that movie.

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Posted: Oct 4, 2017 - 1:48pm

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

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Posted: Oct 4, 2017 - 1:35pm

miamizsun wrote:

when i think of tv dinner

i think of salisbury steak

pavlovian

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Posted: Oct 4, 2017 - 1:17pm
when i think of tv dinner i think of salisbury steak pavlovian

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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 8:04pm
I'm in a coffeehouse writing a ghost story about a haunted pub. Just as I'm describing the pub through the eyes of its newest employee and main character, the barista in the coffeehouse says, "It's haunted."

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Posted: Apr 2, 2013 - 8:04pm
swell_sailor wrote: 42 bazillion to 1/2.333333333333333

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Posted: Apr 2, 2013 - 8:01pm

Alexandra wrote:

First, the tragic backstory. I had a claimant finally clear a Pre-X investigation and get approved - only to die 3 days later.

I've been talking to her brother, who's handling her estate, and he lives in Ohio. He knew the police chief of my suburb where I owned a home, the very chief who organized a task force to help rid me of my vandalous, horrid neighbors when I appealed to the city for help. They went to the FBI academy together. What are the odds..........

42 bazillion to 1/2.333333333333333

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Posted: Apr 2, 2013 - 7:54pm

Alexandra wrote:

First, the tragic backstory. I had a claimant finally clear a Pre-X investigation and get approved - only to die 3 days later.

Pretty trippy indeed.

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Posted: Apr 2, 2013 - 7:52pm

First, the tragic backstory. I had a claimant finally clear a Pre-X investigation and get approved - only to die 3 days later.

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 7:12am
hippiechick wrote: Maybe because people who do this come off as a little paranoid? Yes that's right.

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 7:06am
steeler wrote: So, why was he keeping it a secret? Maybe because people who do this come off as a little paranoid?

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 7:04am
steeler wrote: So, why was he keeping it a secret? Again secret is too strong a word, it is something he did not go into explicit detail about unless given a reason. Seeing how I am prepping gave him a reason, the information is now freely flowing and we are rockin and rolling!

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:51am
sirdroseph wrote: Oh no, he is just happy to have someone else that thinks like him and has the resources to set up camp with weapons, generators, farm land, well and so forth. So, why was he keeping it a secret?

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:46am
steeler wrote: er, uh, ummm . . . . If he told you, it's not a secret anymore. Did he just mess up on one of those littlest details to his peril? Oh no, he is just happy to have someone else that thinks like him and has the resources to set up camp with weapons, generators, farm land, well and so forth.

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:44am

oldslabsides wrote:

A "best friend" who has secrets. That makes me wonder.

Perhaps secret was too strong a word, how about you can't talk freely with this to everyone because you will be ridiculed and I always knew he had thought about this just not to this level of detail and knowledge. He is one of a very short list of people in this world I trust with my life and I have lucked into having a best friend with all of this knowledge. {#Yes}

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:34am

sirdroseph wrote:

Makes you wonder........ My best friend apparently has been secretly working on how to survive when the grid goes down. I mean every aspect down to the smallest detail. {#Eek}

Who knew? Just had one of our visits with him (I bring him down here a couple of times a year) and showed him what we have done in regards to prep work so far; gave him the tour of the forty, took him to the shooting range to show him the weapons we have acquired so far and layed out our plans and what not and he proceeded to talk for 3 days straight helping us decide on what caliber and what weapons we still need to get, the littlest details you never think of we will need and so forth, very productive! {#War}

A "best friend" who has secrets. That makes me wonder.

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:31am

sirdroseph wrote:

Makes you wonder........ My best friend apparently has been secretly working on how to survive when the grid goes down. I mean every aspect down to the smallest detail. {#Eek}

er, uh, ummm . . .
.
{#Whisper}

If he told you, it's not a secret anymore. Did he just mess up on one of those littlest details to his peril? {#Wink}

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Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 6:00am

sirdroseph wrote:

Makes you wonder........ My best friend apparently has been secretly working on how to survive when the grid goes down. I mean every aspect down to the smallest detail. {#Eek}

You're kinda scary {#Eek}

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