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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sense of Humor
Message-ID: <51452@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 06:15:33 GMT
References: <91C30C0F6CDF40BC16@Gems.VCU.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <91C30C0F6CDF40BC16@Gems.VCU.EDU> CSCHERRER@RUBY.VCU.EDU writes:
>
>Is Apple developing a sense of Humor
>One of their directories in Bric-a-brac.apple.com
>is pub/nerdtools

*Developing*?! :)  Apple has always had a sense of humor.

Someone pointed out that the "Developer Helper" CDs have interesting
titles:
  1. Phil and Dave's Excellent CD
  2. Phil and Dave's Excellent CD, The Release Version (it's a different Dave)
  3. A Disc Called Wanda
  4. Discy Business
  5. Night of the Living Disc
  6. Gorillas in the Disc

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You have to be careful when you go on vacation, too.  I did not see the
following first-hand, but I have seen the story repeated with consistent
details enough times that I think it's true, not folklore.

One poor guy came back from vacation to find that his helpful coworkers
had completely filled his cubicle with white Styrofoam(tm) packing
material.

As he was digging his way into his cube, an -innocent- passer-by saw the
guy digging in, and said "Oh, so that's *your* car out there in the
parking lot."  Now, the guy was pretty attached to his Porsche, so he
went "Gaaak!" and ran outside to see what was going on.

In the parking lot he found his helpful coworkers wrapping his Porsche
in plastic, with the aid of borrowed shrink-wrap machine.

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In the lobby of this building, there is no full-time receptionist/guard,
so in the chair behind the guard desk someone put an inflatable (and
inflated) Godzilla(tm?) creature, holding a "Welcome" sign.

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One more thing:  Did you see the "McIntosh: The Power to Crush the Other
Kids" pseudo-commercial on Saturday Night Live?  (I know some of you did,
I saw it in somebody's .sig!)

The way I heard it:

After it aired, NBC got a request from Apple for a copy of the tape of
that commercial.  At first they really didn't want to send it, but once
the guy at the Apple Library convinced them that some Apple folks thought
it was funny and didn't want to make trouble over it, apparently NBC agreed
to send the tape.

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