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I have a couple of Timex watches with many of the features described here. Unfortunately, the manuals that came with them are not nearly this funny nor this clear. Especially the instructions for setting the second time zone on one of them.
Mike Hiatt
Manager, Tech Pubs
VocalData, Inc.
Dallas, TX (yep, that one) mailto:mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com
www.vocaldata.com
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From: Thomas Eagles [mailto:tekwriter -at- sympatico -dot- ca]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:35 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Funny Tech Writing
If you want to read some very quirky tech writing that is (yes) a bit
funny and pleasantly distracting, try this:
It's the strangest little operator's guide I've ever seen. I just bought
the watch and got the hard copy of the manual.
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