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Scary, isn't it, that someone's out googling "black & decker" everyday, huh? Kudos to their advertising firm. I wish that our Black & Decker were as reliable as their tools!

Why not Decker and Black?

I don't get your flippant response, Doug. I can completely understand why the Black & Decker company wouldn't want to be inadvertently associated with this scandal. In business, your company's good name is all that you've got.

Like Don Moore says, why not just use "Decker and Black"? It's just as accurate, just as short and avoids any confusion.

Black was the principal bad guy, Decker the little fry. Personally, I always thought it should have been the Clark and Lewis Expedition, but Lewis was the first among equals on the team.

Besides, no one who reads the editorial is going to think it has anything to do with the tool company. Their complaint is silly. Do they really think we should stop using the term Black and Decker scandal when we're writing about the Black and Decker scandal?

So if a guy named Doug Clark commits a crime, I guess the N&R shouldn't take steps to distinguish between that Doug Clark and you?

The only reason you are calling it the "Black and Decker" scandal instead of the "House Speaker scandal" or the "General Assembly scandal" or any of a dozen other possible names is because Black & Decker is a well-known brand name.

"I am Vice President of Investor and Media
Relations at The Black & Decker Corporation. I
was surprised to see a reference to a 'Black &
Decker scandal' in the online News-Record. I
then realized this refers to two individuals
named Black and Decker, not our company. I
understand that this seems like a clever
reference, easily understood when reading the
article. However, I wouldn't want people casually
searching the internet to think we were involved
in some scandal. Please refrain from using our
company name in this context.

Thanks,

Roger A. Young"

Dear Roger! I think you are over reaching about your corporate name being use for the forces of evil in North Carolina. A search of your corporate donations to various poltical candiates, reveales that you are using slave labor in Mexico to screw the citizens of the United States. I would suggest that if you really believe the internet is stopping your sales in North Carolina, that you change your name to the Sears tool company and become a good corporate citizen. By the way! Why did your board remove the American flag from your board room and replace it with a United Nations flag?

Yours truly,
Patrick Henry and a host of patriots who would love to see if your newest pitfork product works on your Globalist rear end..

js, how can you say that's the ONLY reason? Their names are Black and Decker. If they had other names, we'd use those.

Be honest. Do you think anyone could read our editorial and think we were referring to the tool company?

As for reporting the arrest of Doug Clark, the newspaper would print a full name, age and city of residence to distinguish the culprit from others of the same name.

I'm more worried about turning up by mistake in the obituaries. Or not by mistake, come to think of it.

Is this a scrapped script from a wannabe Seinfeld episode?

Dear Roger A Young, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations at The Black & Decker Corporation:

So you have ths guy who casually searches the internet looking for a B&D Handisaw-Cordless Powered Hand Saw, but instead stumbles over a news article about a guy named Black and a guy named Decker - a couple of sleezy Democrats now in federal prison for corruption - and he somehow associates this with the B&D Handisaw - Cordless Powered Hand Saw, but after reading and absorbing the riveting piece, decides against the B&D Handisaw - Cordless Powered Hand Saw by Black & Decker Corporation for fear of his new tool somehow being related to the political scandal in the ever so humble state of North Carolina.

Roger, do you REALLY want this man using a sharp, potentially dangerous power tool made by the Black & Decker Corporation?

Well said.

For the sake of partisan accuracy, I must point out that Decker was a sleazy Republican-Democrat-Republican. He went D for 50K.

I sit corrected; I had no doubt he was an idiot - I didn't realize he was that much of an idiot to actually switch back - sounds to me like he should have been a D to begin with (since I don't really HAVE to be partisan). :o)

Mr. Y switched back to Republican because his district favored that party, but he didn't fool the voters. They bounced him in the GOP primary.

After his defeat, his benefactor Mr. X got Mr. Y a nice state job. It was about that time when investigators began to figure out there was more than just friendship between Mr. X and Mr. Y.

Doug,

According to their website, the registered trademark is Black&Decker. Just skip the "&", use "and", and tell Roger Young to get a life.

MD

More than just friendship? I'm not sure if you can still use the X and Y reference.

Okay - bad joke.

I figured the & was the source of the problem. But I'm not giving it up. Maybe I'll just claim a trademark for X&Y.

Roger, do you REALLY want this man using a sharp, potentially dangerous power tool made by the Black & Decker Corporation?* 2 Bear and Stears dollars worth

Yes! In fact Mr Black has requested Roger's newest high tech tunneling machine. He has arrange with Federal authorities for Roger to be on his vistor list when delievering the product.

Mr Decker has also arranged for Roger for a visit to his federal detention center. He said for Roger to drop off the cash in the Prison's kitchen pancake section under the strawberries.

One question for Black and Decker! Who was the corporate idiot that hired Roger for their public relations department?

In fact Roger should be scare to death of the Landmark corporation with his internet threat. No doubt Roger does not know that Landmark owns the Weather Channel. All it takes is for one hurricane to hit North Carolina and the Weather Channel reporters advise comsumers to rush down to Sears to get their repair tools.