OFF: Some Humor for a bad day!
BREVARD Adrian R. (MSMail)
ABrevard at SHL.COM
Mon Dec 2 17:55:00 EST 1996
Anyone having the post holiday blues at work/school today may get a
quick howl out of this. Straight from the "Knuckleheads in the News
Department" -
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>From Computerworld - November 4, 1996
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Panasonic Corp. were set to
launch
the Internet PC earlier this month. It featured a Web browser developed
by
Panasonic. In the interests of making the system user-friendly, the two
firms licensed the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker as its mascot.
But at
the last minute, executives were forced to cancel the launch and the
multimillion-dollar ad campaign, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
It
seems the Japanese marketers, unfamiliar with American idioms, had
chosen
the slogan:
"Touch Woody, the Internet Pecker."
No word yet on a new launch date or a new slogan.
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AB
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"...Here is the night: and here to watch me
And lights and lights: and I far away and alone:
The harvest is quiet, toward infinity
(The spirit is quiet) poems go silently
Into the night: into the night: I mean: only
Shadow that comes back, that once was divided . . ."
-Campana, excerpt from "Images From The Journey And The Mountain"
"Every Poet is a Thief."
Masqurade - Surface of Pain
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