Green Ink....

[Bob_Huntley]

Probably the most succcessful Venture Capitalist in history had been Don Valentine. Think Apple, Yahoo, Cisco, Google and a host of other companies. When an aspiring tech guy came looking for capital, Don would go over the paper stuff and edit with a green pen. Sometimes the results would be an embarassment for the proposer, or a death sentence.
At times I feel the same about my good friend the Hon. Patrick Mucci.

When I see his questions to some poor aspirant on GCA, I go back to the Inquisition or Savaranola, with his Bonfire of the Vanities stance in Venice.

I dread the day he gives me the green ink on some inane comment of mine.

Bob

[Kevin_Reilly]

I wonder if Google buys paperclips yet?  

Frugality

[T_MacWood]

Bob
I've seen excerpts of Valentine's notations...quite a few 'horses ass', 'disingenous' and 'historically dishonest' are to be found. He also appeared to have an unnatural obcession with the topography of Florida.

[Andy Levett]

Those unfamiliar with the British journalists' expression 'green ink brigade' may enjoy this article

[T_MacWood]

Andy
Thanks for the link...it was enlightening.

“There came in the post an eighty-five-page handwritten letter, written in green ball-point ink, from a gentleman in a mental hospital in Ottawa. He had read a report in a local newspaper that I had thought it possible that life exists on other planets; he wished to reassure me that I was entirely correct in this supposition, as he knew from his own personal knowledge”.

Pat
Have you ever lived north of the border?