Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Old F's (was: Auto Homemation)
Message-ID: <2415@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 05:37:40 GMT
References: <786@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <515@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <1111@percival.UUCP>
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Summary: "Telephone Pioneers of America"

In article <1111@percival.UUCP>, gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) writes:
> Well, if you happeen to work for the telephone company(ies), the Pioneers will
> buy you lunch after 17 years of employment, thus qualifiying you as an
> "old fart

	I always kid my friends who work for AT&T and the BOC's that when
the job starts to get to you, just remember if you stick with it, someday
you can be a Telephone Pioneer - an honor, indeed. :-) 
	One of my BOC friends gave me the telephone number for the local
Pioneer "newswire" (a recorded announcement, changed weekly); he said to
call the number for a few weeks and make an impartial observation.  I did.
The vast majority of the "newswire" message every week consisted of names
of Pioneers who had just passed on to the Great Central Office in the Sky.
I realize that shouldn't be funny, but I can't help but to chuckle at the
consistency of the Pioneer "news".

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