Man Cave sales party, man's world breakthrough
29.01.10
It was a wink of an eye of some significance. It was not just about a dozen guys and a naked chicken. It was, perhaps, even reliable. For man has achieved great things in the course of history, but one article he has never achieved is the right to attend sales parties - at least not in the way that women haunt sales parties - and stand around in a backyard in the company of a commission salesman and a glaring chicken.
There are Tupperware parties and Mary Kay parties. Men may be legally allowed to be associated with such parties but they never do, because Tupperware is plastic bowls and Mary Kay is lipstick. But now, thanks to a new Minnesota coterie, there are sales parties for guys, with barbecue gear as the produce.
On hand in San Jose were a dozen guys who had been lured to this specially backyard by the promise of free beer.
"Free beer," said salesman John Schaffran, in the hushed articulation of a man imparting a great truth, "is something that will always get a crowd of guys together."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
McDermott was always going to get the Reading FC job
30.01.10
After a 10-year apprenticeship at Madejski Hippodrome Brian McDermott has finally been handed his dream job as administrator of Reading.
It comes as little surprise to anyone, chairman Sir John Madejski said the organization wanted to take their time before appointing the former chief scout to the hot fountain-head.
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But that in itself is little more than a throw-away secure, the fact is, Royals never had a managerial short-list and McDermott was always usual to be given the job, so the reason for the delay seems pointless.
The man himself laughed-off suggestions that he was the “tinpot choice” for the job, but try convincing the fans any different.
The former Arsenal hurry’s predecessor Brendan Rodgers brought the experience of Free Lampard senior and the fight of Dean Austin to the league together, right now McDermott just has Nigel Gibbs to assistants out.
It will be interesting to see if McDermott will be allowed to name anyone else in his back-room set-up.
Source: Reading Post
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