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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.wobegon
Subject: Re: HATE HATE HATE HATE...
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 18:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 18:15:14 1985
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In article <1367@amdcad.UUCP> mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) writes:
>In article <924@trwatf.UUCP>, root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
>> No what I hate?  Some slick marketing campaign that depicts young,
>> active people going ape shit over product frobnitz, as if it were the
>> greatest joy of their lives.

>Oh, so now we're flaming advertisements, time to toss in my 2 bits..
>
>No what I hate? Frobnitz ( to borrow a term ) ads that start with
>" *most* people see this valley from down there " or " *most* people
>take the trail to get to this beach ". Well now that I know that
>the person in the ad is a superior being, I'm sure I want to run
>out and buy some frobnitz so I too can become superior. But then
>they end the ad with the famous line, " the question isn't whether
>frobnitz is good enough for you, are *you* good enough for
>frobnitz". The little bubble over my head bursts, the ray of light
>fades. FROBNITZ ISN'T GOING TO MAKE ME A SUPERIOR BEING IF I BUY IT,
>RATHER I HAVE TO BE SUPERIOR BEFORE I CAN BUY IT. 

My name is Steve.  I'm a software evaluator.  I spend six months working
on schedules and tests that are rendered invalid by schedule slips and
changes to specifications two weeks before the product is due to ship
to customers.  So I end up doing the same thing on every project that
I work on: I poke at the program with a stick.  No plan, no finess, no
careful selection of poignant test cases.  It invariably breaks anyway.
I am required to certify in two weeks that a complicated system made
up of hundreds of lines of code in tens of modules, all written by different
engineers with different revisions of the specifications, will not only
work but will not have any bugs in it.  My cereal?  RAW BITS.  Raw Bits
oat hull and wheat chaff cereal.  Send us your resume and WE'LL decide
if YOU have what it takes to eat Raw Bits.