BP: Short for 'bad press'?

A bumper-sticker sandwich at Butcher in New Orleans.

The clamor in New Orleans over the Gulf oil spill may have quieted down some this week because of all the Hurricane Katrina commemorations, but it's still everywhere you look:

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"I never did mind the little things."
A famous line in reflecting the "BP" woozers.

    Reply#1 - Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:55 AM EDT

    BP---short for Blood Pressure....BP will make it "BOIL" just like all the lost of "OIL". An old tv add from BP's caption was "We bring oil to your shore" (or as to that affect). I didn't think they meant "LITTERALLY"!!

      Reply#2 - Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:09 PM EDT

      "Bad press"? Or a corporation lacking the history of good deeds and good global citizenship required to offset a serious error?

      Although an "error" caused by dangerous shortcuts combined with the subsequent corporate face of a CEO who managed to embody the concept of a "wealthy elite" irked at the thought that "the little people" could intrude upon his life would have required a history akin to Santa Claus's to offset...

        Reply#3 - Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:15 AM EDT

        BP short for blood pressure is accurate. My blood pressure has elevated to 190/91. If America does not take

        a stand against BP Queen Elizabeth will be on our dollar bill. It's a British invasion. Phyllis Kunz

          Reply#4 - Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:31 PM EDT

          BP --- BS How long has this been going on. Then, as Ronald Reagan once said, then comes the ultimatum

          Phyllis Kunz

            Reply#5 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 1:04 PM EDT
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