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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
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}>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.
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