Yesterday was Microsoft’s annual employee meeting. These things have the reputation of being equal part religious revival and product showcase, and this year’s didn’t disappoint on either front.
“The Office” star and Seattle nataive Rainn Wilson did a commendable job as MC, punctuating droll observations about Microsoft with explosions, breakdancers and a world-record-setting paper airplane toss.
But the funniest moment arguably came when Microsoft’s chief guru Ray Ozzie addressed everyone. At one point he talked about the negative forces arrayed against Microsoft and said something like, “There will always be the cynics, the skeptics, the cookie lickers.”
Cookie lickers?
Everyone in my vicinity processed that for a second, then we all turned to one another and asked, “Cookie lickers? Did he just say ‘cookie lickers’? What does that mean?!” We were abuzz with cookie-licking speculation, and as far as I know, nobody has figured out what exactly he meant.
The only thing I can figure is that it’s a reference to “Oreo lickers”, those who just lick the cream out of an Oreo without consuming the whole cookie. I should go watch the video of the event and see if there was some context I missed the first go around.
[...] Posted in microsoft by mscotthillis on September 20th, 2008 As I said in the last post, the Microsoft employee meeting acts as a showcase for new technologies brewing at the company, and [...]
Raymond Chen has blogged about this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/12/01/9930480.aspx