Fie!

[Douglas Thayer <douglas_thayer -at- SMTPLINK -dot- SYSCOM -dot- COM -dot- TW>]

     In other words, blame it on the Yellow man, eh? <wink, wink.>

     A pox upon this stereotyping. The implication that products from the
     Far East are of inferior quality has no more truth than the notion
     that all Americans are thrice-divorced, pistol-packin' cowboys who
     have no respect for their elders. Come to think of it, there may be
     less truth in the former.

     Douglas Thayer
     <douglas_thayer -at- smtplink -dot- syscom -dot- com -dot- tw>
     Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

     "Please check your provincialism at the door."


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Subject: Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 19 Apr 1995 to 20 Apr 1995
Author:  MasterWork Kat Nagel <katnagel -at- EZNET -dot- NET> at smtplink-syscom
Date:    4/22/95 9:45 AM


William J. Hartzer forwarded the following:

      "Please Excuse Us For Being Late!!!

      There was this huge explosion in our semi-colon factory. All
      the local suppliers were out of stock so we had to send to
      the Far East for replacements. The first batch of
      replacements had the tails on the semi-colons going in the
      wro ng direction.  You can just imagine how distracting this
      was. At this point w e debated leaving the semi-colons out
      entirely since most people use them inco rrectly anyway.  We
      finally wound up hand-lettering each semi-colon. Therefo re
      some of the semi-colons are not exactly the same as some of
      the others but it is the best we could do.*

      *Actually, we don't have a good excuse-we are just late
-----

I love it!  If you remember who sent it to you, please let me know. I'll
give them an honorary membership in the Society <grin>.

@kat
katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
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