GM President Rick Wagoner announces new industry consortium
A joint press conference was held today by executives of General Motors, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler and Delphi. The companies have formed a consortium to suggest replacements for the phrase "hemorrhaging red ink," which has become tired and cliched from overuse in press coverage of recent weeks. Recommended alternatives for the 2007 model year include:
- "spouting arterial sprays of red ink"
- "making red ink futures a safe bet"
- "bleeding red ink profusely all over the shareholders"
- "forgetting that ink ever came in little black bottles"
- "leaking red ink in rivulets from every available orifice"
- "making boardrooms look like the ending of Carrie, but with red ink"
- "crying over shot glasses of bourbon mixed with red ink"
- "hemorrhaging red ink... out the ass!"
- "sticking the red ink pig"
- "vomiting up huge fibrous clots of red ink"
