Membership Dues Put to Good Use
The National Association of Realtors has decided to allow boards to “voluntarily” restrict its members from using the term “MLS” in their websites, urls, and marketing.
In other news:
- The New York Stock Exchange decided to allow brokerages to voluntarily restrict the usage of the term “dot com bubble” on official company websites.
- Texas legislators have passed a law forbidding newspapers to use the words “Ken”, or “Lay” either in the same sentence or successive sentences in the same paragraph.
- The American Chemical Society has decided to rename “chloroflourocarbons” as “lovie-dovie-dust”
- Donad Trump has purchased all 546 SuperCuts franchises in an effort to restrict their use of the the words “comb” and “over”. Franchisees are asked for their voluntary participation. Franchise owners who don’t agree to the restrictions will be forced to watch all 72 hours of ET’s coverage of the Rosie O’Donnell/Donald Trump media fight until they agree with the voluntary restrictions
- AT&T has decided to change their name back to Cingular
- Jell-O’s board of directors have decided to rebrand the wiggly treat as “Jell-A”, in hopes of capturing the Hispanic female shopper demographic
- The National Arbor Foundation has enlisted the help of the board of directors of the National Association of Realtors in devising a plan to reverse the annual fall foliage massacre. “Every year”, says the Arbor Foundation Chairman, “we are forced to watch perfectly good leaves change color and drop to the ground. This is an unnecessary and dangerous pattern that must be nipped in the bud. We thought it was time to honor the spirit of our founding members while simultaneously increasing the publics awareness of our efforts and value. What better group to help us achieve our goals than the NAR?”
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