You Can't Tell The Players Without A Scorecard (Privileged and Confidential)

While driving Bus down the tubes year ago January, we observed staff of city doesn't use articles when speaking.

Bus riders will now know from reading this privileged and confidential memorandum (Do not be concerned, you, as a frequent rider of the Bus, ARE privileged and, confidentially, I know you will keep this under your hat) that Dan, author of this privileged and confidential memorandum, consistently refers to his boss, in the text of this official document, a privileged and confidential memorandum, by his first name.

Everyone mentioned in this privileged and confidential memorandum (please don't ask me how I got it!) has a first name, a last name and a title. Except for Greg. When I read about "Greg of City Charter" in this privileged and confidential memorandum, I wondered if this was someone like Lawrence of Arabia or Brad of Brangelina. Some people, they don't need a last name. People like Cher or Liza or even Louis.

But this curious "staff-speak" is not unique to Dan. Fellow blogger and citizen journalist Jackehammer received the following email from Louise, also of "The City".

"Dan works for Greg. Greg asked him to review the allegations...Dan did that...Dan will comply. I have copied Dan on these e-mails and he can certainly respond further if he would like to add anything else."

Following are some photos of some people who have first names.

This is a picture of Greg:
This is a picture of Dan
This is a picture of another Dan
This is a picture of Louise
This is a picture of another Louise and some guys named Dave and Jim
This is a picture of another Jim
This is a picture of Ryan
This is a picture of Jason
This is a picture of Bill
This is a picture of Jack
This is a picture of Jackhammer
This is a picture of Bus
And here is a link to some better busing tips.