Lycos Sells Out To Those Dastardly Spaniards; W.R. Hearst Rises From Grave To Stop Takeover.

May 16, 2000 4:49 PM

Lycos Sells Out To Those Dastardly Spaniards; W.R. Hearst Rises From Grave To Stop Takeover. Spanish ISP Terra Networks SA is now the proud owner of Suck, Hotwired, and Jeff Veen. Oh yeah, and a fairly useless portal. Now we just have to wait for the Sucksters to publicly deride their new owners...start your stopwatches.
posted by solistrato (8 comments total)

¡Víva el lycos!

(for full effect, pronounce Lycos as "lee-KOZ" instead of "LYE-koz")

Jeff Veen should now be known as "The Bumblebee Guy" and be heard saying things around the office such as "¡La Interface no es bueño!"
posted by mathowie at 5:34 PM on May 16, 2000

¿bueño?
posted by ericost at 6:20 PM on May 16, 2000

Yes! The key weapon of the Spanish ISPosition is surpise. Surprise and muchos pesetas.

Oh -- the TWO key weapons of the Spanish ISPosition are . . .

posted by fpatrick at 8:02 PM on May 16, 2000

¡Coño!
¿Will they bring back to life "el chango de la red""
posted by tremendo at 8:11 PM on May 16, 2000

you guys are whacked... hehehe
posted by Jeremy at 9:51 PM on May 16, 2000

What I heard is, due to a little error in translation, Terra actually paid 12 billion to buy Leykis.
posted by wendell at 10:19 PM on May 16, 2000

"¡La Interface no es bueno!"

posted by veen at 11:05 PM on May 16, 2000

No, no, they bought it for 12.5 billion Spanish pesetas, or around US$70 million ... whoops ...
posted by dhartung at 11:20 PM on May 16, 2000