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Matthew writes: After waking up with a serious hangover, the Chief Finance Officer at Yahoo! set about undoing the financial damage from the company’s April Fool’s Day website acquisition spree. This is a transcription of the phone call to SlashNOT managing editor Matthew.

“Hello?”

“Hello, Matthew?”

“Yeah?”

“Hi Matthew. It’s Susan Decker, CFO of Yahoo! We spoke yesterday about acquiring your website?”

“Right, yeah, thanks for the ducats.”

“Yes, well, about that, well, it’s rather difficult to bring up, but I’m afraid that we may have purchased your site in error. Frankly, we thought we were buying a site called “Slashdot.com”, which apparently looks a lot like your website. I’m not familiar with the details or really what the difference is, but my tech guys are saying that we got the wrong site. Of course, we understand that this is our mistake, and we want to do the right thing by you, so we’d like to just turn the website in question back over to you and you can go ahead and keep the $ 200.00. How does that sound?”

“Um, okay.”

“Great, that’s fantastic. It’s been good doing business with you, Matthew, and on behalf of the entire Yahoo! team, I’d like to thank you for your professionalism.”

“dude, whatever man. I can keep the check right?”

“Yes, that’s right. Okay, well, I’ve got a lot more calls to make so I’m going to go ahead and get back to it.”

“Later dude.”