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Subject:RE: re Employee experience dilemma.... From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- intl -dot- com> To:"'Mark L. Levinson'" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> Date:Fri, 12 May 2000 14:43:31 -0600
Mark writes:
> Bill Burns writes to me:
> Do you mean my response specifically?
>
> ** I apologize abjectly. Since the fictitious name was
> Lisa and I meant to say "the management", I used
> "Mr. Burns" as a facetious reference to the evil
> boss of Homer Simpson. Being someone with the same name
> as a line of audio equipment, I should have realized
> that iconic names are also carried by real people.
>
Hmmmm. Simpson, eh?
Actually, I thought that might've been the case (which was why I asked).
It's quite all right.
This reminds me of when MASH came out. My father, who was a Major in the
USAF at the time, was not too thrilled with the name they chose for Hotlips'
love interest (Major Burns).
Bill Burns - Eccentric Technology Consultant
INT'L.com Design & Development
billdb -at- intl -dot- com
"Being disintegrated makes me very angry."
