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A Video Tip for Yahoo: “The Aloof”

Yesterday, I posted a video of the classic Nancy Sinatra song, “These Boots Are Made for Walking,” as a metaphoric tip for Microsoft to deal with its continuing rejection from Yahoo.

Then someone sent me this video answer to Sinatra’s, which turns out to be a perfect path for Yahoo to follow in its likely futile efforts to ward off the attentions of the software giant.

From the movie “Sweet Charity,” it’s called “The Aloof,” and subtitled, “Rich Man’s Frug.”

Perfect!

Here’s the video:

Comments

  1. Did you see this one:
    http://beyondpr.blogspot.com/2.....-with.html
    JML

    Posted by Jean-Marie Le Ray at February 15th, 2008 at 6:58 am
  2. Jean-Marie:

    Yes, we had it posted on our Voices page last week. Very, very funny!

    Posted by Kara Swisher at February 18th, 2008 at 2:05 am

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