“Toy Man”

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/story/2011-11-21/Mattel-ceo-to-retire/51333694/1

Toy giant Mattel reported that their CEO, Robert Eckert, will retire at the end of the year.  The company made the announcement using their inside voice.

Eckert has headed the company for 11 years.  And now he’s winding down.

During the time he has lead the company, he has also learned a lot about sharing and waiting your turn.

Allegedly, Eckert got really tired of everyone at the company playing games with him.

The CEO will be replaced by an electronic version of Eckert.

Eckert says that once he retires from the toy business, he’s looking forward to more play time.

Luckily for Eckert, his predecessor, CEO Barbie, left really tiny shoes to fill.

As exiting CEO, Eckert has an attractive retirement package, but of course, batteries are not included.

“Gimme a ‘G’”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/story/2011-10-18/missing-scrabble-letter/50814520/1

At the World Scrabble Championships in Warsaw, Poland, a letter “G” was noticed to be missing from a game set only at the last draw and was replaced with another by the referee after all attempts to find the original had failed.  When asked how he felt about the game, the winner suspiciously answered, “GGreat.”

The search for the missing letter even went so far as to demand that the players empty their pockets.  Since they are World Champion level players, neither of them had the letter.  Since they are World Champion Scrabble players, neither of them had any money, either.

According to the official rules, the replacement “G” was a letter of apology.

Since the G was dropped, the competitors were not really playing Scrabble, but were merely playin.’