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The Mogulog
private letters of the jpt brass
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8/05/2007
D
ear Fidget,
Maloir and Lorriette over in Operations Integrity have presented evidence that someone in Graphics Procurement might be listing a given image under multiple fabricated captions and skimming as foul swag the unspent budgeted funds. Such embezzlement would also violate artworks guideline 183b, the "one pic, one label" stricture that has seen us through to where we stand today atop the heap. Here are some suspect samples. They look pretty d*mn similar to me.

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Here, horsey horsey! Why can't you ever get a taxi in the rain? Old glue factory trick
Here, horsey horsey! Why can't you ever get a taxi in the rain? Old glue factory trick
The same image also appears above the captions "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have" and "Courting the saddle-sniffer vote." Clearly something must be done. Please find out what that is and do it.
Joyless in Mudville,
Adjitatus

8/05/2007
Dear AdSeem-2B-a-Verb,
One certainly sees what you're on about. Why, those jockeyette pics differ only in where they lodge upon the page! My only question is, which is the real one and which the clones? Oh, I will get to the bottom of it. New cars cost money, and I want a new car, and some master villain out there in procurements is sitting on the money-pump, pumping him- or herself full of our sweet lolly. I'll soon enough waltz matilda on that jolly swagman, by Jove (which of course is to say, by Myself).

Meanwhile, Integrity also seem to have uncovered an image-defacement issue occurring somewhere between Procurement and Staging. Moustaches on fair damsels, blackened teeth, that sort of rot. Those are easy to restage when found because the .gif name is unchanged and we can simply refer to the original Procurement copy. The tougher cases have had their very filenames vandalized. How, for example, do we identify the true file for the following hacked specimen among thirty million graphic images?

lets-play-whoopass.gif lets-play-whoopass.gif

I'd appreciate clearance to break some fingers when I come upon some jackalope giggling in his cubicle (or jackalinalope giggling in her cubicle) whilst committing such pathological malfeasance.
Ever ready for battery,
Flaschgorten

8/06/2007
D
ear Fillybuster,
No, that's the actual name of that one. I thought it up and had old Whitsel do the sketch. Break all the fingers you want. Use your
jpt billy and it won't leave identifying marks. It'll be their word against yours, and I'll take yours any day. [Think the next line with lower pitch & dramatic emphasis:] They won't dare go to the cops.

I renew the call to get cracking on our embezzlement affair. This turned up just three hours ago, two of the ignominious iterations having already shipped to different education-partner/clients:

Drill here for pre-refined oil I never could work a compass I'm 2 damn weird 4 here
Drill here for pre-refined oil I never could work a compass I'm 2 damn weird 4 here
The affected parties have been contacted and mollified with freebies and the firing of that petulant Haischadtz?/Harschotts?/ woman I scapegoated because of her history of disloyalty in front of visitors and chronic job-shopping while on our clock and our resources. Good riddance that one. I'm dropping the word to our grapevine associates. She'll not soon again be free-parking her expanse in the plush office chairs of THIS ol' mogul's tinsel-town.

But don't let me keep you. I know you have work to do.

Most Keenly Anticipatorial,
Admitted Binbad

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