Christmas Cards

December 23, 2005

We received this card from a client this week...

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As our Spanish-speaking cohort was away on vacation, we relied on the internet for a translation...

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This was honestly the translation that one particular site thought was the answer. Another site revealed this one...

(Note: there's a straightforward translation of the card that belongs here, but the image won't show up, and I don't see any apparent reason why not. I don't feel like troubleshooting html code, especially since this image isn't part of the gag, so imagine it for yourself.)

...although this similar-looking page that Tyler found came up with this one ...

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As you may have gathered, the company did not send out team-specific Christmas greetings to our clients this year. I might be too egotistic here, but I like to think that my ridicule from last year made us more gun-shy than we would otherwise be.

Not ones to allow our clients to go ungreeted, we sent a greeting from our team's director....

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While we're sharing photoshoped pictures of Steve, here's one from earlier in the year, which is certainly my favorite of the collection.

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Merry Christmas everyone!