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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:15 PM
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WalMart employee greets with semi-nude photo - Fired
Dean L. Wooten, 65, was accused of greeting customers with a computer-generated photo of himself in which he appeared to be naked - except for a carefully placed Wal-Mart bag - and of telling customers that Wal-Mart was cutting costs and the sack was the company's new uniform.
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Wooten's application for unemployment compensation was rejected by an administrative law judge, who said ``a reasonable person would know the act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be good for the employer's business.''
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``When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing,'' he (Wooten) said.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4718588,00.html


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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:27 PM
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1. Anyone want to bet he said "purty" insteadof "pretty"?
Anybody that says "when I first seen it" most likely does NOT pronounce "pretty" properly :).

In reality he most likely said "When ah firsseen it, I purtanear died laffin." :) (spacing is intentional to give impression of actual speech) :)
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:30 PM
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2. Small town values!
he was confused. its the young factory workers in china who have to wear bags to work!
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:30 PM
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3. I'm glad Wal-Mart employees have a sense of humor.
Pity he was fired.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:35 PM
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4. worse than that - fired without compensation
Wooten's application for unemployment compensation was rejected by an administrative law judge, who said ``a reasonable person would know the act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be good for the employer's business.''
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:47 PM
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5. I can understand that part.
And he had been warned to stop showing it.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 03:59 PM
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6. Like this guy?
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