[humorix] Humorix Hopes To Get Rich Quick Before "Dot Org" Bubble Bursts

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

Humorix Hopes To Get Rich Quick Before "Dot Org" Bubble Bursts
April 6, 2002

For years, we jumped on the dotcom bandwagon and hoped to
become financially independent right away.  We did
everything we could -- we called our website a "PORTAL"
just like everyone else, and we had a wildly successful
Initial Public Offering (for a few hours, anyway). 
However, any hope of striking gold was washed away when the
dotcom bubble burst and Silicon Valley became a ghost town.

Now we're jumping on another bandwagon.  Since Humorix has
never turned a profit, we feel that we are qualified to
label Humorix as a non-profit organization.  We've
registered the humorix.org domain name and now we're all
set to cash in on the "Dot Org" craze. This business model
seems to be working quite nicely over at the for-profit
non-profit Slashdot.org website and now we want a piece of
the action.

"It's seems clear that we can rake in more profits as a
non-profit organization rather than a for-profit company,"
explained Mr. G. E. Trich, Humorix's former Investor
Relations Officer & Executive Book Cooker (now his title
has been shrunk to simply Head Book Cooker).   "People
never willingly hand over their hard-earned money to a
company. But a non-profit organization?  When it comes to
getting rich quick -- er, I mean, when it comes to
fundraising, the sky's the limit!"

We haven't yet drawn up a business plan (or should we call
it an organization mission statement?), but we're not too
concerned. Now that we've eliminated our stock (formerly
Nasdaq: FAUX), we no longer have to answer tough questions
posed by both of our ex-shareholders, such as "Why aren't
you even trying to make money?" and "Why did you just spend
$1.2 million on a new swimming pool for Humorix World
Headquarters?"

Some critics charge that Humorix's transformation into a
non-profit organization is a scam.  "The only reason they
registered the humorix.org domain name was because .net and
.com were already taken," charged one industry observer who
may or may not have actually said that.  He might have
continued, "No wonder their pathetic attempts at becoming a
successful dotcom company never took off -- they didn't
even have their own dotcom domain name to start with! 
Sheesh."

Mr. Yu Surre, the Loan Officer at the Second Local Bank of
the Bahamas to which Humorix currently owes $1,695.02 in
debt, was unavailable for comment at press time.

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