Sarcasmotron

All shall prostrate themselves before SarcasmoTron! And now we shall learn of its genesis...

We will need to go back in time, back to the distant year of 1992, when motivational speakers come 'management experts' roamed the conference halls and lecture theaters of America, delivering impassioned seminars and talks. In attendance would be thousands upon thousands of corporate minions, aspiring middle management there to learn the one-line platitudes and gibberish of a new world, that which would become the dot-com bubble.

Synergy, Customer-driven, Paradigm, Core competencies, Value-added, Results-driven! Such was the ill-defined language they filled their silly heads with, and upon returning to their third-floor offices many of these people did a very curious thing. They put up framed images, each showing a word in all-caps, Times New Roman with the first and last letters several sizes larger than the rest. Above was a vaguely related photograph. The words would be 'Teamwork', 'Perseverance', suchlike.

But they don't have to be :-) Let us now lampoon those images, with whatever first enters our heads.

The sarcasmotron is a tool to make such parodies. There are other, similar tools, I wanted one of my own. This one has a gallery and an rss feed.

Created 2008-04-15 03:29:11 by strix and filed under things