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A Merry Xmas from your friends at Stone & Clone Associates, Inc.™ |
Rummaging around my storage boxes, to my delight I discovered a series of photos that I knew would make this holiday season complete. It also proves that madcap and insanity have long ruled my life.
In 1979, my sister and I came up with a terrific idea: to make strange greeting cards to capture sentiments best left unsaid. She was great with the one-line zingers and I kinda diddled with photography. Neither of us could draw. We formed a legal corporation named, "Stone & Clone Associates, Inc."
That was a derivation of a fictional company I created for my final exam at B-school in 1978. The purpose was to incorporate all the management theories we learned and show examples within the context of an organization. The actual name in the case study I wrote was, "Stone and Clone, Pioneers of Genetic Engineering." The most colorful feature was that it had three divisions: Fertility and Reproduction, Birth Control and Cloned Pets Made to Order™. Imagine my surprise when the professor phoned me a week later.
"That has to be the funniest paper I ever read in my life!" Most of my business school professors didn't know what to make of me as I usually prefaced all my case studies with quotes from the doyenne of capitalism, Ayn Rand.
"Does that mean I got an A?"
"Even better. Would you mind if I use it in my classes as a case study?"
Yes, since 1978, that paper was showcased in classes at the MBA Program in Management Studies at Pace University making me a legend of sorts. But, I digress...
My sister obtained a deer hoof as our only prop. And then we got a little bit creative. You know that ol' saying: It's so bad, it's good. Perhaps not. These are some of the highlights:
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As usual, we were ahead of our time. Years later, greeting card companies came out with outlandish cards. Even though we never made anything out of this, I was dogged for years by NYC and NYS tax departments.
These are some pics we took of ourselves:
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Me at 27! Property of Stone & Clone Associates, Inc. ™ |
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