ISSUE NINE
JUNE 2005

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Manager insists "staff take personal responsibility for attitude control"
Neil Chance

A self-styled 'facilitator of transformations' and has recommended that his team members "surrender utterly to company changes - or get out"... (more)

 

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a crab Are you an erotic actress?
With controversial porn documentary"Inside Deep Throat" about to be released in UK cinemas, find out if you could be an erotic actress in this issue's Fig Questionnaire..(more)

barron knights Barron Knight's demand 'The 100 Greatest Albums' recount
The UK's leading comedy band have insisted that Channel 4 review all votes cast if executives want to avoid "A Taste Of Agro"...(more)

the popeGeorge W Bush's iPod hacked
Following the publication of tracks from George W Bush's iPod earlier this year, security experts have successfully hacked 'the first ipod' to reveal George W Bush's secret playlist. Click here to to reveal the songs that the White House didn't want you to know about.

the proclaimersRevealed: the real hidden messages in Led Zeppelin's back catalogue
BIRMINGHAM - Sound engineer's working on long lost master tapes of the 'Led Zeppelin IV' sessions have identified reverse messages in "Stairway Heaven", originally thought to contain the words "hail my sweet satan". State of the art computer re-mastering techniques have revealed that the actual words delivered by Zeppelin front man Plant are "Review your equity position and check the volatility of the securities in your portfolio to ensure it reflects your risk tolerance." Confronted with the evidence, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Paige confessed to the prank. "You've got to remember that this was the early seventies, and there was a lot of hard financial advice floating around. Everyone was doing it. Robert just thought it would be a fun thing to do."

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