Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga Ad Contest (was Re: The ouch in advertising) Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 88 00:33:33 GMT References: <1426@neoucom.UUCP> <8243@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <740@ardent.UUCP> <649@apctrc.UUCP> <7847@well.UUCP> <19559@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Distribution: na Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 36 In article <19559@ames.arc.nasa.gov> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) writes: > About a year ago, I proposed to BAADGE (awright, BADGE) and FAUG that we > have a 'Design an Ad Contest'. I even sent email to Paul Higginbottom (sp?) > and he said "Cute, but getawayfromme. . .". > > Even without any interest from > Amiga-Commodore, I still think it might be fun to have the contest > considering the numbers of creative people and tools out there. > > *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick *** I can see it now... (David Letterman-style #define MODE DREAM_TIME screen fade into:) Pan down to Bill Gates in front of an Amiga 500. In his absolute best Joe Isuzu voice/style/dress: "Hi! I'm Bill Isuzu for the new Amiga 500. Did you know that it is possible to multitask with less than 4 meg?" (Zoom into screen running CygnusED while compiling with Manx's Aztec C while playing Amoeba Invaders.) (Back to Bill; he knocks on the case of the A500.) "We just had to use smaller bytes." (Caption on the bottom of the screen: "For a man that used to write in 8080 machine code we can't figure out where his brain has been recently.") -Tom P.S. Disclaimer: This was in no way intended to start a law-suit between Bill Gates and I. -- Tom Limoncelli Drew University Madison NJ 201-408-5389 tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet limonce@pilot.njin.net "Fences make good neighbors" -Frost "I want an MMU" -Me Standard disclaimer? No, we're still on the dpANS disclaimer.