From: "Jeannie Dalrymple" <motherd(a)theriver.com>
KYMONTGO-L(a)rootsweb.com
An old, bearded shepherd with a crooked staff walked
up to a stone pulpit and
said, "And lo, it came to pass that the trader by
the name of Abraham Com
did take unto himself a young wife by the name of
Dot.
And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder
and long of leg.
Indeed, she had been called Amazon Dot Com. And she
said unto Abraham, her
husband, "Why doth thou travel far, from town to
town, with thy goods when
thou can trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were
several saddle bags short of a
camel load, but simply said, "How, Dear?" And Dot
replied, "I will place
drums in all the towns and drums in between to send
messages saying what you
have for sale and they will reply telling you which
hath the best price. And
the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made
by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot
have her way with the
drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate
success. Abraham sold all
the goods he had, at the top price, without ever
moving from his tent. But
this success did arouse envy.
A man named Maccabia did secret himself inside
Abraham's drum and was accused
of insider trading. And the young man did take to
Dot Com's trading as doth
the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were
called Nomadic
Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Siderites, or
NERDS for short.
And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new
riches and the deafening
sound of drums, that no one noticed that the real
riches were going to the
drum maker, one Brother William of Gates, who bought
up every drum company in
the land. And indeed did insist on making drums that
would work only if you
bought Brother Gates' drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started
is being taken over by
others." And as Abraham looked out over the Bay of
Ezekiel, or as it came to
be known "eBay," he said, "we need a name that
reflects what we are," and Dot
replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"Whoopee!", said Abraham.
"No, YAHOO!" said Dot Com.. .and that is how it all
began.
It wasn't Al Gore after all.
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