15 Nov
2000
15 Nov
'00
7:35 a.m.
e-Is e-it e-just e-me, e-or e-has e-the
e-world e-added "e-" e-to e-all e-words?
e-I e-can't e-seem e-to e-read e-a e-magazine
e-without e-seeing e-words e-everywhere e-or
e-hearing e-them e-on e-television e-or e-radio.
Seriously, it seems that every word is now becoming
an e-version of itself in this new e-commerce
world. I personally find it e-nauseating for several
reasons, none of which, e-politely, I will e-describe
here. Dictionaries will now need to be twice as
big, for every word and its e-word.
Maybe, since DEC no longer exists (well sorta in Compaq),
we can create an e-DEC company, and those of us who use
software simulators for these non-existent computers
are really using e-computers.
<I don't know whether to give an e-grin or e-not>
End of my e-lunch -- time to go back to my e-work.
Cheers/TTFN.
Kevin Anderson
North Dakota
(or is that e-Kevin in e-North Dakota, since none of you
have seem me personally -- maybe I don't exist and am
just an e-person?.....)
home: K9IUA(a)juno.com
alt: kla(a)helios.augustana.edu
8:35 a.m.
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011151352300.28423-100000(a)instinct.bears.org>rg>, on
11/15/00
at 02:35 PM, "r. 'bear' stricklin" <red(a)bears.org> said:
Pink pirhana skates
glibly past the dot-com star.
Stock market plummets.
Oh Freddled gruntbuggly,
thy nacturations are to me
as plurdled gabbleblotchits
on a lurgid bee.
Groop! I Implore thee!
My foonting turlingdromes
Or I shall rend thee in the gobberworts
See if I don't!
V/R
Jeff
P.S. This was taken from personal memory so don't give me too much hassle
for details. Thanks. --
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8:17 a.m.
New subject: e-Nauseated (off-topic a tad)
Rantin' time,
...It's trite marketing spewed from the Powerbooks of the laziest,
most cynical Madison Avenue hacks. Put an e- on it, and it's new, it's hip, and
the kids will dig it. Also, older people won't understand it, but they are
irrelevant, and what they hell were they ever good for anyway? <snicker> Nobody
really knows what the 'e' actually means (becuase it doesn't actually mean
anything) so any object or idea is fair game for e-inization.
But this isn't the first time that this has happened. Let's cast ourselves back
to the early sixties, to a time we call The Jet Age (some also call this
the Populuxe era..) The jet aircraft & spacecraft were made a objects of worship
in very much the same way as the internet. Think about your B&K Dyna-Jet
Test equipment, the BSA Super Rocket (and the Olds Rocket V-8), the Orbit Mall,
and on and on. Every icon of culture from cars to letterheads to ashtrays to
fashion took on a streamlined, jet-like motif.
It's fame by proxy and value by association. Old marketing ideas for the new
millenium; so what did you expect? Change?? <grin>
--
Bill Layer
Sales Technician
<b.layer(a)vikingelectronics.com>
6:31 p.m.
New subject: e-Nauseated (off-topic a tad)
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Bill Layer wrote:
Rantin' time,
...It's trite marketing spewed from the Powerbooks of the laziest,
most cynical Madison Avenue hacks. Put an e- on it, and it's new, it's hip, and
the kids will dig it. Also, older people won't understand it, but they are
irrelevant, and what they hell were they ever good for anyway? <snicker> Nobody
really knows what the 'e' actually means (becuase it doesn't actually mean
anything) so any object or idea is fair game for e-inization.
But this isn't the first time that this has happened. Let's cast ourselves back
to the early sixties, to a time we call The Jet Age (some also call this
the Populuxe era..) The jet aircraft & spacecraft were made a objects of worship
in very much the same way as the internet. Think about your B&K Dyna-Jet
Test equipment, the BSA Super Rocket (and the Olds Rocket V-8), the Orbit Mall,
and on and on. Every icon of culture from cars to letterheads to ashtrays to
fashion took on a streamlined, jet-like motif.
It's fame by proxy and value by association. Old marketing ideas for the new
millenium; so what did you expect? Change?? <grin>
Don't forget TURBO!
- don
--
Bill Layer
Sales Technician
<b.layer(a)vikingelectronics.com>
16 Nov
16 Nov
5:58 a.m.
New subject: e-Nauseated (off-topic a tad)
Oh god..
Don Maslin painfully reminded:
Don't forget TURBO!
Curse you Don Maslin ;) I _HAD_ forgotten about the Turbo Marketing Revolution
of the mid 1980's. Question is, what inspired it? Was there some turbocharged
automobile that set the trend, or was it just a random convergence of
mediocrity that made it all possible?
Remebering his Yamaha Seca 650 Turbo..
Bill Layer
One day we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
15 Nov
15 Nov
12:06 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Kevin L. Anderson wrote:
Seriously, it seems that every word is now becoming
an e-version of itself in this new e-commerce
world. I personally find it e-nauseating for several
reasons, none of which, e-politely, I will e-describe
[...]
Maketing idiots strike again. I agree with you, it is nauseating.
Yet one more bit of proof that giving more people a college education
won't improve the world; it simply doesn't make stupid people any more
intelligent; instead, it just creates more problems by giving stupid
people bigger egos, a degee, and a better chance at screwing more
things up.
Maybe, since DEC no longer exists (well sorta in
Compaq),
DEC is dead. Long live DEC! Compaq, alas, didn't get destroyed
instead... Compaq: proof of what I wrote about idiots and education.
--
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2:04 p.m.
Kevin L. Anderson skrev:
Seriously, it seems that every word is now becoming
an e-version of itself in this new e-commerce
world. I personally find it e-nauseating for several
reasons, none of which, e-politely, I will e-describe
here. Dictionaries will now need to be twice as
big, for every word and its e-word.
The worst thing is, Zilog are now making an e-Z80. =)
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
A Spanish MSX Group "Matra" visited to this Fair. I lent Spanish stand to
them. They showed and did Promotion play of SEX BOMB BUNNY. And this Game has
tema song of Majingar-Z! Why they know Japanese TV animation?
K. Ikeda, MSX-Print
17 Nov
17 Nov
12:40 p.m.
Kevin L. Anderson skrev:
>Seriously, it seems that every word is now becoming
>an e-version of itself in this new e-commerce
>world. I personally find it e-nauseating for several
>reasons, none of which, e-politely, I will e-describe
>here. Dictionaries will now need to be twice as
>big, for every word and its e-word.
The worst thing is, Zilog are now making an e-Z80. =)
Hell, that's already a retro-buzzword EZ-whatever :)
Gruss
H.
Ceterum censeo Microsoftem esse delendam
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