Rumors?
Despite tremendous request, I won't address the rumors that I have been inundated with the last couple of days in my professional capacity regarding the names of potential acquisitions. I legally could not even if I wanted to. For those of you who asked my personal perspective hoping to glean some information out that way: I won't do it in my personal capacity either.
My perspective is that it is best to not address or give any credence to rumors, speculation or innuendos of this type. Otherwise, you might have to spend all of your free time answering rumors and things can be misinterpreted. It reminds me of the joke that some of my friends would do as a game growing up. The game was usually a question(s) phrased in a way so that ANY answer the person gave in return could be easily misconstrued or taken out of context.
Back then it was just a game played among friends to tease each other. In today's world, it seems some people have taken this game to a skilled, new art form. Let me give you a simple, humorous example: a question like, "Hey, does your mother/father know you pick your nose"? is set up in a way to get a confirmation regardless if it is true or not. Whether you answer "Yes" or "No", you have opened yourself up to be taken out of context.
If you answer "Yes", then you have just confirmed that you pick your nose and your parents know about it.
If you answer "No", then you have just confirmed you pick your nose and your parents don't know about.
Either way, it can be interpreted that you pick your nose, whether actually true or not.
If you try to be smart and decide not to answer at all, it can be interpreted that there might be some validity to you picking your nose because you did not deny it. From my perspective, it is best not to play the game at all.
So for everyone who has asked, my PERSONAL advice and opinion is this: Don't buy into any Hype, and don't buy into any Bashing. They are merely two sides of the same coin.
Have a great weekend.
John
