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Jack Flack usually parses with the intent of clarifying corporate babble through parody. But what's a parser to do when a person like Winfried F.W. Bischoff, Citigroup's outgoing chairman, eliminates the middle-man and goes straight to self-parody.

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Some people may be amazed at his happy-go-lucky nature, while others may get angry and call him irresponsible upon hearing the parody of "The Green, Green Grass of Home" that U.S. President George W. Bush sang at a recent dinner for the White House press corps. The lyrics, which I found in a wire service dispatch, are quite compelling.
"That old White House is behind me/ I am once again carefree/ Don't have to worry 'bout a crisis in Pyongyang ... . It's good to touch the brown, brown grass of home."


harum-scarum

Synonyms:	devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, slaphappy, freewheeling, carefree
Usage:	I was a harum-scarum, reckless lad, and he had had an education, and was already marked for the sword-belt.

parody Show phonetics
noun
1 [C or U] writing, music, art, speech, etc. which intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the features or qualities of the original more noticeable in a way that is humorous:
He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
There is a hint of self-parody in his later paintings.
Compare travesty.

2 [C] DISAPPROVING something which so obviously fails to achieve the effect that was intended that it is ridiculous:
"It was a parody of a trial, " said one observer.

parodist Show phonetics
noun [C]
a person who writes parodies

parody Show phonetics
verb [T]
to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way:
One of the papers is running a competition in which you've got to parody a well-known author.

middleman
n.

1. A trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers.
2. An intermediary; a go-between.

happy-go-lucky

Meaning #1: cheerfully irresponsible
Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, harum-scarum, slaphappy

Definition of buyout

noun

the purchase of a controlling share in a company, especially by its own managers (also management buyout).