Goosing the Numbers

A business Powerpoint presentation — apparently genuinely made by someone at a bank called Softbank — includes this educational image of a goose with a caption that says “Goose was not valued.” Call it a metaphor, call it whatever you like, this Powerpoint slide brings renewed meaning to the old business phrase “goosing the numbers”.

Long Live the Morbid Book Review

Rachel Clarke uses contrast as a tool to praise the book called Morbid. Reviewing Morbid, for The Guardian, Clarke writes: These are startling allegations, especially when made by someone whose Amazon author page reads as though it was aiming for whimsy, but written on acid. Among other things, Newman has “met a man with walrus-skull […]

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