Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dswt From: dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited Summary: Hear, hear! Give us the goddam bunny/dogcow/whatever! :-) Message-ID: <3912@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 10 Jan 91 11:02:14 GMT References: <1991Jan8.022451.18538@engin.umich.edu> <1991Jan8.174102.18266@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan9.014829.900@swbatl.sbc.com> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Stewart Tansley" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 30 In the referenced article george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) writes: >In article francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes: >> >>Unless the Energizer folks are fools, I'm sure that the bunny itself >>is a trademark. As someone else suggested, another image could be >>substituted, but then of course the joke is pretty well lost. > >I don't think that the image of the bunny is all that important. I don't watch >TV that much, and I've only seen that commercial once or twice, and I've never >found the bunny to be all that humorous. > >I think the net-trekking animation idea is neat on its own. Hear, hear! George is absolutely right here. As a Brit, I have absolutely no idea what the US commercial is all about & the origins of the Bunny -- but I *know* I need the Bunny & I need it *now*! *Please* give us the goddam Bunny -- *functionality* at least. A dogcow would be just fine! Thanks for listening, =========================================================================== Stewart Tansley | STC Technology Ltd | 'Be cool, or be | London Rd, Harlow, CM17 9NA, UK | cast out...' dswt@stl.stc.co.uk | +44 279 429531 x2763 | Subdivisions, Rush =========================================================================== 'You know how that rabbit feels - going under your spinning wheels...' ===========================================================================