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If you’re down in the dumps or need something to pick you up I really can’t recommend enough that you stop by the Enron website and browse through the sections of the site that predate the bankruptcy.

I’ve commented previously on the dopiness of Enron’s glammy, wise-guy Schumpeterian ad campaign. But most of their website now reads like a cacophony of gag lines and double meanings.

Like this beaut from their ‘Who We Are‘ Page …

It’s difficult to define Enron in a sentence, but the closest we come is this: we make commodity markets so that we can deliver physical commodities to our customers at a predictable price. It’s difficult, too, to talk about Enron without using the word “innovative.” Most of the things we do have never been done before …

Some posts just pretty much write themselves.

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