
Similar phenomenon
There was a guy at Microsoft (don't all my "reminds me of an idiot" stories start that way?)
When I was tending bar in college, someone told me:
All the best stories I've got of funny things that happened to me seem to start the same way: First I had six shots of Jose Cuervo, then me and my new friend ...
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]