MSFT: Here’s an offer you can’t refuse.

FLICKR: Wait! B-b-b-but, wait! What!?

YHOO: Hmm… Well no, actually we do refuse.

MSFT: Unfortunate.

MSFT: Then we fight! For the future!!

YHOO: (This could get ugly – you guys better go home)

SFGATE: MSFT is hinting at something.

SEATTLE-PI: YHOO appears modest, coy, desperate, isolated, etc.

YHOO: Hey, a new message in myspace.

LOEWS: Ballmer, you lack financial acumen.

FOREMSKI: YHOO, you lack ethical stature.

GATES: We’re too cool to haggle. Original offer stands.

MSFT: X-box Press Release 1… X-Box Press Release 2… X-Box Press Release 3…

GOOG: Huh. Weird. Yeah, so me and my buddies are sending robots to the moon.

Stay tuned!