From: the.wise.one@abel.co.uk   
      
   "The Company Way"   
      
      
   [SCENE - THE MAIL ROOM]   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: When I joined this firm   
   As a brash young man,   
   Well, I said to myself,   
   "Now, brash young man,   
   Don't get any ideas."   
   Well, I stuck to that,   
   And I haven't had one in years.   
      
   J PIERREPONT FINCH: You play it safe.   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: I play it the company way;   
   Wherever the company puts me   
   There I stay.   
      
   FINCH: But what is your point of view?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: I have no point of view.   
      
   FINCH: Supposing the company thinks...   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: I think so too.   
      
   FINCH: Now, what would you say...   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: I wouldn't say.   
      
   FINCH: Your face is a company face.   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: It smiles at executives   
   Then goes back in place.   
      
   FINCH: The company furniture?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Oh, it suits me fine.   
      
   FINCH: The company letterhead?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: A valentine.   
      
   FINCH: Anything you're against?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Unemployment.   
      
   FINCH: When they want brilliant thinking   
    From employees   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: That is no concern of mine.   
      
   FINCH: Suppose a man of genius   
   Makes suggestions?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Watch that genius get suggested to resign.   
      
   FINCH: So you play it the company way?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: All company policy is by me OK.   
      
   FINCH: You'll never rise up to the top.   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: But there's one thing clear:   
   Whoever the company fires,   
   I will still be here.   
      
   FINCH: Oh, you certainly found a home!   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: It's cozy.   
      
   FINCH: Your brain is a company brain.   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: The company washed it,   
   Now I can't complain.   
      
   FINCH: Hey, the company magazine!   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Oh, what style, what punch!   
      
   FINCH: The company restaurant!   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Every day same lunch:   
   Their haddock sandwich, it's delicious!   
      
   FINCH: I must try it.   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: (Early in the week.)   
      
   FINCH: Do you have any hobbies?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: I've a hobby; I play gin with Mr. Bratt.   
      
   FINCH: Mr. Bratt!  And do you play it nicely?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Play it nicely... still, he blitzes me   
   In every game, like that!   
      
   FINCH: Why?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: 'Cause I play it the company way.   
   Executive policy is by me OK.   
      
   FINCH: Oh, how can you get anywhere?   
      
   MR TWIMBLE: Junior, have no fear;   
   Whoever the company fires,   
   I will still be here.   
      
   FINCH: You will still be here.   
      
   Both: Year after year after fiscal,   
   Never take a risk all year!   
      
      
   from:   
   "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" 1967 UA film   
   "The Company Way" Music and Lyrics, 1961, by Frank Loesser (1910-1969)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)