The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh wise and wonderful Oracle, before whom my long distance plan is > not confusing, please answer my following question: > > I am a faithful (well, semi-faithful) employee of AT&T. In the > past three months that I have worked as a technical consultant for > AT&T, I have noticed something distressing: the logo of AT&T bears a > striking resemblance to a certain Death Star. Jerre Stead (my boss's > boss's boss) keeps extoling the virtues of our "Common Bond" which > sounds suspiciously like the manifesto of the Dark Side. > What should I do? > > Sincerely, > Michael in "Common Bond"age And in response, thus spake the Oracle: You have stumbled upon a dreadful secret that was first exposed in the late 80's by Milo Bloom and his pet penguin Opus. They were about to go public with their discovery when they had a late night visit from a man known simply as DaVader. The next day they recanted all previous statements. What they discovered was this: 1. AT&T actually stands for Association of Totalitarian Technocrats. 2. The AT&T "logo" is, in fact, an encrypted blueprint of the Death Star, which is easily readable by any Empire technician with the "THX-1138 Sly Movie In-Joke Reference Viewer". Access to these viewers is strictly controlled. Anyone caught with an unauthorized unit is forced to watch those Candice Bergen Sprint commercials for twenty hours. This is a fate which has been proven to reduce Grand Admirals to blithering madmen. 3. AT&T operators are actually responsible for the destruction of both Death Stars. Despite the assertion by Princess Leia that she "placed information vital to the Rebel Alliance" into R2-D2, the fact is that R2 came across this information when he plugged into the Galactic phone system and attempted to dial 1-900-SEXY-BOT. His call was misrouted by a confused operator to the Empire Galactic Domination Help Line "Press 71 for a list of Rebel spies, Press 72 for Complete plans to Empire's new weapon of terror." R2, thinking he was supposed to enter his name, simply pressed R (7) and 2. The rest is history. 4. The "Bothan spies" that were supposed to have died valiantly getting the second Death Star information did no such thing. The worst that happened was one of them broke a claw dialing information to get Help Line number. You may ask why the Empire didn't get an unlisted number. Hey, they were silly enough to build a second one after it was obvious the first one was a no-go, so you can't actually expect them to do anything as difficult as calling the phone company. The Oracle suggests that you immediately leave your position with the Empire and dedicate your life to destroying all the "logo" encrusted billboards in the Galaxy.