Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site frog.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.rumor Subject: Re: My Coke runneth over Message-ID: <227@frog.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:08:13 EDT Article-I.D.: frog.227 Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:08:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 20:30:30 EDT References: <1124@vax135.UUCP> Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.flame:11192 net.rumor:1011 > Please pardon the lack of obscenities in this flame. (c; > Take a clue from this phrase from one Coke posting: "News flash!" > News flashes can work on TV because (a) there are still few sources of > the information -- it is still "news", and (b) the transmission reaches > everyone who is going to hear it within the same few milliseconds. > Sitting on 2000 cases of hoarded Old Coke and RUINED, > Charles Poirier > It's time to let the cat out of the bag. AT&T bought the Coca-Cola Company while no one was looking, and we have just about repaid their expenditure... :-) -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA I have a bad habit of thinking of tremendously witty .signatures just before I fall asleep. If I kept paper by my bed, you'd probably be laughing uncontrollably at this very moment. Sorry.