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Thursday, November 9, 2006 12:00 AM

Odds-on office talent show winner

This brave soul dusts off his best Bono impression to celebrate a corporate partnership. Is it real, or a viral spoof?
By David Marchese

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  • Monday, November 13, 2006 01:19 PM

    Better believe it: other corporations do evil things to songs too...

    I sat through a similar butchering of U2 by Nextel's unofficial corporate rock band, The Direct Connectors, at an annual Nextel Ra!Ra! event at the DC Armory...

    Listening to a Nextelized version of "It's a beautiful day" really hurt pretty heavily... It only got worse when they played a version of "what I like about you" that sounded like "What I like about Boost!" or something equally horrifying...

    —juanfe Read juanfe's other letters

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