INQUIRER hack mistaken for Intel shill

Mike Magee sat down with a crowd of Intel Euromarketeers but came a cropper because he didn't understand what the three letters MDM meant.

One Intel man saw Mageek drinking a very large glass of Pense Cola and asked him how long he had worked for the chip corporation.

Mageek misunderstood the question and said he had first worked for a corporate reseller in 1986. The man said that Mageek was then junior to him because he had started working for Shipzilla in 1978.

He said so what do you do at MDM. This question stumped the aged hack, who made the mistake of asking what MDM meant. It then took him a full fifteen minutes to find out what MDM meant, because suddenly the marketeers rumbled him.

It means marketing development manager. Sheesh! Here's a picture of many MDMs departing south for a dinner in San Francisco, sans Magee. The man who made the mistake is not pictured here, and the INQ refuses to identify him unless you, dear readers, sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA).