What could go wrong?
"There's lots of oil and gas here. We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."
- Doug Suttles, BP chief operating officer, says the company could attempt to tap the nearly $4-billion worth of crude oil in the same undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons in the Gulf of Mexico.
And so cyber-darkness descended, leaving millions without vital Internet access (mostly e-mail jokes).
"If they can't deal with the Internet, they should shut it off."
- Research In Motion's Mike Lazaridis responds to governments seeking to ban BlackBerrys because they can't read the encrypted messages.
Bankrupt, money loser - we weren't crazy about those names either.
"We don't want to be known as Government Motors."
- GM CEO Ed Whitacre says he is eager to hold a share offering and rid the company of its owners in Washington and Ottawa.
And if you own RIM shares, it really is 2006.
"It's like staring back at 2006, but with cataracts."
- Tech blog Gizmodo on the screen resolution of RIM's new BlackBerry Torch. (RIM's shares are at late-2006 levels.)
If we can't sell the houses, it'll be a retreat for employees. We'll call it Rainbow Waters.
"If we buy a home, we expect to see an asset of at least that value, if not more, going forward."
Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel offers to buy homes along Michigan's Kalamazoo River, site of the company's oil spill.
Eric Atkins