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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: An open letter to Moriarty
Message-ID: <2569@vax4.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 00:38:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 00:38:38 1985
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Taking my career deftly into my hands...

In article <237@pedsgd.UUCP> bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) writes:
>I've been looking all over
>the place for a John Fluke, but nobody in my area seems to carry
>them. Can these be ordered directly from the factory? How much
>are they?

*Chuckle*.  Bob, you poor, lovable chump, you.  When you see my organization
listed as "The John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.", it doesn't mean we manufacture
John Flukes!  I'm afraid you've misunderstood our product line.

We are, however, working on a David Letterman model which has a projected
release date by next February, and with a little luck, the Donna Dixon
series should be coming off the line next summer, depending on how long the
tan problem takes to solve.  I realize these people are "vaporware" at this
point, but we wanted to be able to release a quality product to the public.
Hey, if we were quick 'n dirty sleezeballs here, we could have hacked out a
Jesse Helms model by Christmas, and I myself could have built a distributed
Twisted Sister package out of a few orangutangs and leftover Chrysler spare
parts and had it on the shelves last April.  But we do things the right way
here, or not at all...

My apologies to those of you who thought I should have posted this to
mod.newprod...

        "The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him."

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want to me, but leave my employers alone! <*>