THE OFFICIAL OBSCURE COMPANY MESSSAGE BOARD Company Restructuring News: The Obscure Company is proud and excited to announce its new company staff for the calendar year of 2006. The Obscure Company Officers The Obscure Company Board of Directors "Interesting" Company Info 2/4/06 First Obscure Company event of 2006! The Smithfield HS Science Fair! 4/1/05 2006 World Men's Curling Championships in Lowell, MA 1/28/05 First Obscure Company officers meeting 11/04/05 Charitable Application Status 9/10/05 Structural Changes The Obscure Sit A Thon Update With so much time passed and donations having trickled to a stand still, we are happy to report our final numbers. Total Expected Donation to the $3650.00 Our record 138 individual donors, supporting our record 16 sitters, allowed us to collect a record 88.11% of all pledges. Our top collector was:
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Obscure Company Banquet Launch 10/9/06 The Obscure Company Banquet is now up on the web! Sign up now to reserve your seats. Coordinated by Mr. "Drewmeister" Liberato and Mr. "M to the Dice" Colwell this event is sure to be the entertainment event of the millennium (negating all future banquets which will obviously be the entertainment events of the millenniums (negating all future... well you get the idea)). Prepare for an evening of food, raffles, company, speeches and much much more. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and maybe, just maybe you'll learn something about yourself... or The Obscure Company. Yeah, probably The Obscure Company. Word. Wordidity that is... Yes its back! 10/9/06 Prepare for the newest revision of that awesome '03 game that wowed the Obscure Nation. Pit your vocab-alicious knowledge against other hopefuls and ultimately be decimated by the Polysyllabic vocabulary of the most talented Obscure-ians. Think you have the wordal wits? Prove it! Cause this humble updater sure don't! Obscure Company Sit-A-Thon 2006 Pictures 9/12/06
Obscure Company Sit-A-Thon 2005 Pictures 8/29/06
Worried about what you may be getting yourself into at this year's Obscure Company Sit-A-Thon? Well you shouldn't be. We're all pretty tame, and generally pretty easy to get along with. We've been doing this for 5 years running now and we have a crew of die hard sitters in addition to new sitters each year. We don't even need to bribe them! (Although this years' incentive program, and entertainment is starting to look irresistible) Still afraid we're going to turn out to be zombies, or some sort of weird sitting cult? Take a look at the pictures from last years' event. It was a BLAST. This year will be no exception. This Year's Sit-A-Thon sponsored in part by 8/18/06
Sit-a-thon, and Golf outing updates 5/18/06
Check the events page for new information regarding the 2006 Sit-a-thon, as well as the fabled OC Golf outing.
Secretary's everywhere have ideas! 4/26/06
Everyone used to working in an office, or corporate setting knows the worth of a secretary. In the Obscure Company, I'm not only the one who grabs coffee and pastries, I also do filing, mailings and even take the minutes from our frequent and exciting meetings. Imagine a world with no coffee, and papers every where! The entire corporate world would be looking down a sharpened fan blade at another attack of the Crimson Permanent Assurance. With all those threats quelled, and cheese danish in hand, this is the one day that secretaries everywhere shine...sort of. Unfortunately, it's sometimes overlooked, and mostly a chore that all bosses must keep in mind come spring. Most secretaries play the role of a telephone operator, and director of data entry and are generally overlooked when they have an original thought or suggestion. (Not the case in the Obscure Company thankfully) Apparently, some inspired secretary (no overwhelming evidence has been found to substantiate a secretary creating WIP day, but we'll run with it) had had enough and upped the ante 5 years ago for all us patrons of the paperwork. April 26th now plays a double duty as a secondary holiday. Today we not only celebrate Secretaries Day, but World Intellectual Property day as well. A day where people all over the world sit back and put on their thinking caps, turbans, fez, 10 gallon hats or what have you, to come up with, share and appreciate new ideas. Listening to ideas no matter how silly or unreachable is one of the Obscure Company's founding attributes, so we encourage all of you to think up something great, and share it with your secretary, or with us... Which brings this rant to a close, and opens the first Web Contest of 2006! Send us your ideas for a new Obscure Company event! Submissions should include a well thought out plan of attack including a listing of all necessary resources for the event, as well as probable event site suggestions. The most creative ideas coupled with pie charts, graphs and any generally awe inspiring napkin drawings will be rewarded with an embroidered Obscure Company polo shirt emblazoned with our new official logo. Submissions will be accepted until May 1st, so think fast folks! Curling is actually straight up excellent 4/1/06
A big ol' happy birthday to Obscure Company Members Andrew Liberato and Douglas Stevenson 3/25/06
We are nearly there...this way! 3/23/06
We are presently a hop skip and a jump away from completion of the Obscure Company website. Aren't you excited? No more soiling yourself at the surprise of a completely new layout! I swear it'll be soon because I don't know if I can take anymore of this suspense. It's like a sit-a-thon, only with a slightly less exuberant finish. I'm sure you'll enjoy it though. Look around, and get comfortable.
Under Construction 2/13/06
Blinded...by Science! 2/6/06
See the updated Events listing for some more details.
It's Alive! It's Alive! 2/2/06
Of the spoils from this rendezvous of the brain trust, were an edited mission statement, talks of becoming our own charity and most importantly, a tentative list of rather ambitious Obscure Company events for this year. That's right, AMBITIOUS. Get ready folks, we're talking pony rides, egg in a spoon races, shiatsu massage, a summit on feng shui, purple monkey gargle blasting, and all the milk and cookies you hellions can stomach. The Ol' C spared no expense this year my friend. People of the world that are in need are going to be PAAAAIIIDDDD. All jokes aside, this year will be a great one, so we'll need all the support we can get from you, and EVERYONE YOU KNOW. So spread the word. This one's gonna be huge.
OK, I've almost got it folks... 1/19/06 Revel in the restructuring! Wallow in the update! Enjoy the wood paneling and wainscoting, because here...you...are! The Obscure Company to come will knock the argyle out of even the most circulatory encouraging darners. What? Anyhow, enjoy the contentless structure, and improve the rest? Yeah! WOOD PANNELING!!! Ok, I promise I'll have things up and running soon. Almost there...Do check out the new picture page...The layout is B-Gorgeous. Keep a look out for the end of my awful sarcastic humor, and the.... Next Obscure Company gathering at the WORLD CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS! In Lowell, Massachusetts the weekend of April 1st gather the most spry, and strategic athletes this side of the Canadian border.
Welcome folks, have a seat. 1/10/06 Good morning everyone! I'm sure you're gawking at the screen in disbelief, maybe drooling, its ok, all normal things. Stay calm, keep breathing. This is the first experiment with the future of the Obscure Company website and has taught me a great deal about how little I know of the inner workings of Microsoft FrontPage. Very soon, we will have pages and pages of organized content for you, but in the mean time, you will have to search the site for bad links, easter eggs, or just check this stuff out...a little something for everyone. See you soon.
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Both
Obscure Company members and executives showed up in Lowell, Mass for the
US Men's World Curling Championship to be wowed by the most underrated
sport around. Turns out that curling is a game of strategy and
depth coordination that people of any age and level of athleticism can
master with practice. Regular Joe's were displaying their years of
practice along side their Olympic medals in 4 different games all going
on at once! It was a 4 lane circus of scrubbing and sliding that
looked like a blast to play. There was talk of starting an Obscure
Company curling team, but we were a bit discouraged when both the
Australian and Swedish curling teams explained that each competitive
team member had been playing nearly their entire lives. We'll be
there someday. We've done stranger things.
Another
year older, and another year wiser. The Obscure Company will be
celebrating Doug and Andrew's birthday at the infamous and delicious Lil'
Miss Cranston Diner near our headquarters. I hear that our
official waitress April is even baking a cake! Stop by, and wish
the ol' boys luck. 
Hold
tight you soldiers of Obscurity, we are working hard on a 'final'
redesign of the website. All too soon, you will stop being
bombarded by new logos, colors, layouts and inconsistent updating.
This I promise. In the meantime, check out the new links, and the
fabled Suggestion Box.
One
might scoff at our pride in Saturday's Science fair at Smithfield High
School, calling it an '
The
first inaugural Obscure Company board meeting proved to be a true
melding of genius and brawn resulting in a successful measure of deadly
accuracy in Charitable leg work. It all began in the
basement floor conference room at Obscure
