DOT COM SURVIVOR
By Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Copyright (c)2001.

(Begins slowly, like Gregorian chant)

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Back in the stone age days of the World Wide Web
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I made a Web site using a plain text editor and
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not one of those fancy WYSIWYG ("whizzy-whig") editing programs which
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didn't exist back then anyway.

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Those were the golden days, my friend, in our
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innocence we thought they'd never end
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In '95, Netscape's IPO news did amaze
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Wall Street paid attention, so began the dot-com craze....

(faster)

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Babe I can't talk now, I've got a meeting in the boardroom, it's a
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P2P with a big-shot VC, hope he's got some cash...
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We'll make a splash.

   (Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...)
   (Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?...)
   
When he signs the papers, I jump up and make a phonecall, I say
"Hello Mom, I've just sold my dot-com!"
And I heard her shout, "Oh baby!!
She's moving out!"

   (Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...)
   (Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?...)
   
BRIDGE:

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   The CEO said, "Going forward keeps us in the game,"
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      I asked, "What does that mean?"
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   He smiled and then explained...
   
   
   
(spoken, gradually getting faster)

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"First maximize your market share with cash and some astrology, a
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second round of funding and an open source technology then
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strategize a turnkey paradigm, maximize your stocks, you've got to
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euphemize your merchandise and THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!"


   (Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...) <--- oops, I forgot this on tape
   (Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?)
   
BRIDGE #2:

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   But then things started to go wrong, In-
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   vestors dropped like flies, it was more de-
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   pressing than the end of Wrath of
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   Khan (dot going, dot gone)
   
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   They sold the contents of my office in an e-Bay auction, but I
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   was so out of shape, I didn't even exercise my options.
   
   (pattern for end bit: D A G A repeated, end with D).
   
JODI:

   I'm going home, I'm going home
   I'm going home, going home
   Can't believe I'm really going home.
   
ALLISON (counterpoint):

   I'm going home, I'm going home
   Can't believe I'm really going home
   Really going home.
   
DEBBIE (counterpoint):

   I'm going home, I'm going
   I'm going home, really going
   home.