 | | "E" in front of the Enron's Houston building |
One of the famed tilted "E" Enron logo signs that once adorned the front of the fallen energy giant's Houston headquarters sold for a paltry ,500, less than a fourth of what a virtually identical sign sold for two months ago. It is the third Enron logo sign, dubbed the "crooked E," to sell at Enron's three post-bankruptcy auctions, and by far the cheapest. The first, from the company's London offices, sold for ,000 earlier this year, and another one from a Houston office building sold for ,000 at a packed Sept. 25 auction. The owner of the latest "E" is Fred Massey, a 55-year-old Houston chemist and businessman who bought it as a Christmas present for his wife. "The whole thing was strictly kind of spontaneous. I walked in on it and haven't decided what to do with it yet," Massey said, "It would make a hell of a Christmas ornament, wouldn't it?" (Agencies) | 随着安然能源公司的丑闻曝光，曾经风光无限地在公司休斯顿总部门口装点门面的标志图案"E"也身价大跌。近日，在安然公司的破产拍卖会上，其中一个"E"的售价仅为1万多美金，而两个月前，另一个完全相同的图案"E"价钱是它的四倍。 到目前为止，关于安然公司的破产拍卖会已经举办了三场。这是在拍卖会上卖出的第三个"E"，被称为"弯曲的E"。同时它也是售价最低的一个。  第一个卖出的"E"来自安然伦敦公司，于今年年初以1.5万美金的价格被拍卖。第二个也是来自是安然休斯顿总部，在9月25日的拍卖会上卖出，售价为4.5万美金。
而这第三个"E"的得主是55岁的化学家兼商人弗雷德·马西，他坦言买下这个"E"是想作为圣诞礼物送给他的妻子。 他说："这一切都并非刻意安排。我刚好走进拍卖场，很自然地把它买了下来。但我还没想好能用它来干嘛。我想这会是个很好的圣诞装饰品，不是吗？" a hell of sth. 表示强调语气 （中国日报网站译） |
Updated: 2002-12-09 01:00
