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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Color Flyers.
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Date: 27 Sep 90 21:34:00 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.204635.21001@cs.umn.edu> you write:
 >amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman <Amigaman>) writes:
 >>I heard if you close your eyes, crossed your fingers and wished really hard "I
 >>wish Marc would go away" 3 times it will really happen!
 >
 >You know, I'm sorta new to this.  Please explain to me the Politically Correct
 >(tm) stance towards Marc Barrett on this board.  Are his messages supposed to
 >be judged individually on their content, or should one prejudiciously dismiss
 >anything he says, whether or not it makes sense?  Let me know - I want to be
 >a good little Amiga owner after all, and I won't let sense get in my way.
[...]
 >Oh, but sorry, I forgot -- criticisms of Commodore are NOT welcome here.  I'll
 >stop, lest anyone add my name to Marc Barrett's in their kill-files (and golly,
 >wouldn't that just ruin MY social life).

No, no -- if you want to join the infamous -MB- in the Kill-File Hall of
Fame, you must learn to convey a nasal inflection via standard ASCII text.
Running your post through my patented AI-based English -> Barrettese filter
produces something more like this.

 >For my part, I have picked up the "Make Up Your Own Mind" Amiga flyer which
 >appeared in last Thursday's Minnesota Daily, and I found it quite absurd.
 >Never mind that it is thick.  With.  Unreadable text like this.  Which tries
 >to tell you.  Something.  Important.  By using too many.  Periods., never mind
 >that it uses a logo very reminiscent of IBM's "Toolbook" (the approaching
 >shark is part of Toolbook's animation demo).  Never mind that the name "Amiga"
 >is never obtrusive (it may be deliberate, after all).  The worst problem is
 >this:

becomes

 Well, I've seen this so-called "Make Up Your Own Mind" flyer in the local
 Daily, and I can't BELIEVE Commodore couldn't do better than this!!  For
 one thing, it's TOO DAMN THICK!!!  And they use too many PERIODS!!!!  Don't
 they have ANYONE THERE WHO UNDERSTANDS HOW TO USE PROPER PUNCTUATION, for
 CRYING OUT LOUD??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  And that "shark" logo, what a PATHETIC
 joke that was!  If they feel like they MUST copy IBM, couldn't they at least
 have copied something USEFUL like cheap 24-bit graphics cards, without which
 they shall surely DIE, DIE, *DIE*!!!  Doesn't anyone listen to what I've
 been saying since I was born, which is that without better hardware than
 everyone else in the world the Amiga is a cheesy JOKE, and anyone who buys
 one is an utter idiot??  And why can't Commodore make an A4000 with hyper-
 optical-digital-tree-shrew-sucking TI34020-based memory cards that I can
 afford??  And I want it TODAY!

(Even if I don't own an Amiga, never buy an Amiga, I'll probably read this
group just for the amusement factor of -MB- and subsequent flames... :-)
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