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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @02:54PM (#8199101)
His spelling needs a bit of work, though. There's only one 'e' in 'bled.'
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by zheshishei on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:03PM (#8199155)
"Bleed" is fine. He's referring to both the past and present. You can replace "bleed" with "ooze", if that helps.
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by bshimmin on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:19PM (#8199234)
Or "squirt". (Do MS still do that, or did it stop with the demise of Zune?)
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by rodgerd on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @04:00PM (#8199451)
whoosh
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by jusben1369 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @02:56PM (#8199112)
Why are you past tensing him though?
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by noir_lord on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:08PM (#8199173)
It's a joke (I think).

In the old days Doctors used to bleed a patient who was ill to let out the poison "I bled him but unfortunately he died".

That or he is implying that he did nothing but suck the blood for 30 years while others did the actual important work.

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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by jusben1369 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:58PM (#8199439)
Good point. Opaque but that does make snarky humor sense.
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by 3Pi on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @04:19PM (#8199544)
My first thought too - had to re-read to see that he wasn't saying he'd bled it dry.
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by tempodox on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:30AM (#8201887)
You mean, like in: “I bled MS to death”?
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