RE: waking up to the world of Technical Writing

[Lippincott Richard J Contr ESC/NI <Richard -dot- Lippincott -at- hanscom -dot- af -dot- mil>]

Nora Merhar said:
>All other things being equal, the couple that goes to
>the Palm may have a better time, but do they have a SIGNIFICANTLY better
>time based on the amount of money they spent? 

Well, in defense of John's analogy...

I've eaten at the Palm. Once. I was either just pre-school or early school age, so we're talking late Eisenhower/early JFK era. I remember the restaurant, what we had to eat, the service (good enough to impress a five year old!!), the artwork on the walls, even the fact that "Steve Canyon" cartoon artist Milton Caniff was dining at a nearby table. I was about five, and yet at almost any time in the intervening years if you'd raised the subject of that restaurant (as John did), I'd instantly recall that one time I dined there.

By contrast, I'm pretty sure I've eaten at a Sizzler, but for the life of me I could not tell you where or when.

--Rick Lippincott
  Titan Corporation
  Bedford, MA


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