Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!orca!mako!davidl From: davidl@mako.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Isn't advertising wonderful? Message-ID: <152@mako.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 13:33:32 EDT Article-I.D.: mako.152 Posted: Fri Jun 1 13:33:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 08:17:26 EDT Sender: davidl@mako.UUCP Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 13 In an ad in this weekend's paper from Levitz, the furniture folks, next to a bunch of lovely drawings of sofas, tables, etc.: "Merchandise advertised is an artist's rendering and may be similar to illustration." I, for one, am not paying $477 for an artist's rendering of a sofa, no matter how similar it is to the illustration! Another case of diarrhea of the typewriter and constipation of the mind... David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl) [UUCP] (...tekecs!davidl.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]