Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: An advertisement I'd like to see Message-ID: <12967@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 21 Sep 88 17:43:20 GMT References: <144@imspw6.UUCP> <11724@emerald.BBN.COM> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 25 }>From Ted Holden at HTE: }> }> "Hello, I'm John X, president of Clones Incorporated. Here }>at Clones Incorporated, we have lawyers (nods at Larson E. }>Pettifogger who smiles) and engineers (nods at the engineer who }>smiles) just like most of our competitors. What I'm here to tell Then hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) writes: } }This is a fine idea, but it would be even finer if there were many }engineers and 1 lawyer. That would drive the point home more }clearly. This won't work. It'd run afoul of the Truth-in-Advertising laws.... :-( Actually, I do see computer adverts by Tandy, Compaq, etc. Like Apple (and that other company with the initials, what's its name?), their marketing is aimed at the football-watching business crowd, and any scientific types would be completely out of place. I don't think IBM (ohyeah, THAT's the name) is really much worse than the cloners, they're just more successful. It's all MBA behavior, though. -- -- bob,mon (bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) -- "Aristotle was not Belgian..." - Wanda