A Different Drummer

Classic Egyptian quote: We are running a short news piece on the sale of some state-owned companies here, and I get one of our interns to make some phone calls to each of the companies to ask for their comment, clarify some details etc. Normally I would do this kind of stuff myself, but the state-owned companies aren't known for being very media friendly, particularly to "foreign" press.

So the intern gets through to the managing director of one of the companies in question - conversation goes as follows:

Intern: Is it true that your company is up for sale?

Manager: Of course our company is for sale! All of Egypt is for sale!

Beautiful. We won't run that quote in the magazine, but we should.....

Speaking of for sale, for anyone who ever spent some time in Adelaide and made it to the epic Myrtlewood Estate, home to a ramshackle bunch of visionary geniuses including myself for the best part of three years, get out your checkbooks - Myrtlewood is for sale. Forget all that US subprime mortgage garbage - now is your time to buy into a piece of history. It'll be tourist site one day, a memorial to an epic time and place that will never return, or something like that....

Check it out in all its sanitized, repainted glory....