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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: welcome to Businessland
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 12:53:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 12:53:46 1985
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["When more and more people are making war, unrest results."]

> Yah know what I hate?  Computer stores that feel obligated to use
> names like "Businessland," "Business Center" or "Business Systems."
> 
> Marketing strategists are apparently targeting their wares towards the
> customers with the money.  That means corporations.  In typical
> marketing-oriented fashion they call themselves "the business experts"
> selling "business systems" to "improve your office productivity" ad
> nauseum.  And of course they style themselves by a name that will
> inspire confidence and professionalism.  Thus we get names either
> prefixed or suffixed by the word "business."

Because nowadays every businessman with some spare money runs out
and buys a computer system, usually long before he knows what he's
going to do with it.

Then he hires somebody like YOU at $25/hour to do something with it.
And you're objecting to this?

And so long as we're in net.flame, it's "ad nauseam," not "ad nauseum."
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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