The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

I suppose it is only natural that invariably one of the first questions is : "What was the most interesting Commission ever accepted by the firm of Mandrell, Limited?" Westerners exhibit a raging compulsion to gain this particular information. They will blurt out their rude inquiry the moment they detect
the slightest sag in one's conversational guard. I have come to conclude that this passion for getting immediately to the plum is a complex inflicted on Western man by his delication to birthday gifting , to the sweet-toothed Easter hare, to the Christmastide thing, and all that.
The Organization for the A...