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From: a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Ad on KGO Radio
Message-ID: <4162@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 00:28:34 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1919@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
> Posted: 18 Dec 90 01:20:51 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
> Person: Dallas J. Hodgson
> 
> Well, heard my first Amiga ad on KGO-810 AM, just before 5PM. Very nice,
> professional and serious sounding ad. At the end of the ad it said "call
> this number" - so I did. The CBM operator who answered seemed confused and
> said "Sorry, nobody's heren right now." I asked her if she though it strange
> that there's no one around to answer C='s own ads, she said "I'm sorry,
> there's no one in right now."
> 
> Oooh, good one C=. I'll have to make a note on my calendar to call back
> tomorrow. 8)

I hope Commodore-Amiga picks up on this: just when things start to roll, you
don't want this kind of "oops" in the sales a marketing strategy.  This type of
thing is why I reject the expression, "...the whole nine yards."  All _ten_
yards are required for a first down!