By Lee Pfeiffer
Once again, an article that is so hilarious compels us to deviate from our coverage of show business news. However, this is far more entertaining than the mundane world of films, stage and TV. The web site Letters of Note has unearthed original 1970s inter-office memos from Tiger Oil, an obscure Texas company run by an equally obscure man named Edward 'Tiger Mike' Davis, whose legacy has been salvaged from the ravages of time. This guy would not have been a candidate for Undercover Boss, the CBS show in which caring CEOs pose as regular employees in order to better understand their trials and tribulations. Conversely, Davis makes Captain Bligh look like Gandhi. Check out the seemingly endless original memos reproduced and relish such touches as referring to his employees as "sons-of-bitches" and ordering them to never speak to him unless spoken to first because "I want to save my throat". (We now know who was the inspiration was for Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross's methods of dealing with the "little people" who serve them.) Click here to read (Thanks to Mike King for the tip)