Tag Archives: problem elephant
Career-ending moments in Celebrity-CEO-ism (or HowTo Transfer Your Domain Away From Godaddy)
Sorry for the clunky title, ever since I saw the original "Kids in The Hall" Career-Ending-Moments skit, it's been a meme I've always loved and been obsessed with, especially when I see one unfold in front of my eyes.
So unless you've been living in a cave, you probably know that last week a media fracas exploded when the video of Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons killing a "problem elephant" in Zimbabwe took the internet by storm. Our original take on it was posted here.
Confession:
When we originally posted that article, we had punctuated it with an offer to … Read the rest
Any press is good press?
There seems to be a growing backlash across the internet in response to Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons and what is being called his "Elephant Snuff Vid". It was a video he made while on a recent vacation in Zimbabwe wherein he kills a "problem" elephant and saves the day for a local farmer whose crops were suffering the worst of it.
(As an aside, it is less known that I too was recently on vacation: in Barbados. I made a video of my own. For the first time in my life I went to a Karaoke bar and I actually … Read the rest