Introducing Monday? Apparently not.

July 30, 2002 7:55 PM

Introducing Monday? Apparently not. PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, whose grand plan to change their company name to Monday were previously discussed, came to their senses and sold themselves to IBM. Goodbye new "identity". Goodbye IPO as well. They were planning on spending $110 million to promote the new name -- wonder how much of that went down the toilet?
posted by smackfu (20 comments total)

Thank goodness. I've had "We've got your name, la la la" in my head for six weeks!
posted by PrinceValium at 8:14 PM on July 30, 2002

The song? I've had those freaky hands stuck in my head. Not pretty. Pretty painful, too, having blotchy hands stuck in your head.
posted by WolfDaddy at 8:17 PM on July 30, 2002

Somewhere, there is a guy (or girl) in a little office. He or she was the first to recommend the switch to "Monday", and probably didn't get nearly the credit he or she thought he or she deserved. Whoever that person is, he (or she) is now no doubt dreading all the attention that is going to come their way very, very soon.
posted by yhbc at 8:19 PM on July 30, 2002

I don't like Mondays.
posted by GaelFC at 8:40 PM on July 30, 2002

From the Yahoo link: After years of soulsearching, "Monday" off IPO list

Guess they didn't find anything.
posted by rusty at 9:24 PM on July 30, 2002

Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!
posted by insomnyuk at 9:31 PM on July 30, 2002

In times like these, the only appropriate action is to point and laugh.
posted by Succa at 9:32 PM on July 30, 2002

*points*
*giggles herself silly*
posted by dejah420 at 10:01 PM on July 30, 2002

this is so dot-com. "hi, we're USWeb. i mean CKS. wait, we're USWeb/CKS. fuck that, we're MarchFirst. oh, what the hell. we're really Divine."
posted by patricking at 10:05 PM on July 30, 2002

I don't like Mondays.

Tell me why.
posted by billder at 10:46 PM on July 30, 2002

I don't like Mondays.

Tell me why.

I want to shoot the whole day down.
posted by GaelFC at 11:08 PM on July 30, 2002

Earlier today, I was listening the the song "Blue Monday" by New Order, and I just realized how perfect it is for this event: "Blue" being IBM and "Monday" being PwC.

Tell me now… How should I feel?
posted by Down10 at 12:31 AM on July 31, 2002

One picture says it all
posted by vowe at 2:39 AM on July 31, 2002

I guess the New Order really is Blue Monday. Ha. Ha. Sorry.
posted by boardman at 4:36 AM on July 31, 2002

That money did not "go down the toilet." Most likely, it went to struggling young marketing executives who snorted it up their nose, thus supporting the working peasant cocoa farmers of several South American regions.
posted by mecran01 at 6:14 AM on July 31, 2002

what's a few million dollars anyways, right?
posted by mhaw at 7:09 AM on July 31, 2002

they snort cocoa?
posted by o2b at 7:09 AM on July 31, 2002

Apparently it's not just another manic Monday.
posted by haqspan at 8:43 AM on July 31, 2002

Earlier today, I was listening the the song "Blue Monday" by New Order, and I just realized how perfect it is for this event: "Blue" being IBM and "Monday" being PwC.

This article quotes Bill Carlino, editor of Accounting Today, as making pretty much the same joke...
posted by kindall at 8:57 AM on July 31, 2002

they snort cocoa?
posted by o2b at 7:09 AM PST on July 31

Much cheaper than cocaine, and the same effect. Little known factoid. Take out the little marshmallows, though.
posted by mecran01 at 9:07 AM on July 31, 2002