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Re: And In The U.S., They're Forced To Buy Retail (fwd)
Subject:Re: And In The U.S., They're Forced To Buy Retail (fwd) From:LaVonna Funkhouser <lffunkhouser -at- HALNET -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:45:09 -0500
Karen,
This might come closer to being funny if it didn't try to come
across as a report by a real-life organization (STC). I know you
aren't the author, but I thought I'd let you know that I find it
offensive. Mateo should have made up some humorously named
organization for his satire.
By the way, it was previously posted on techwr-l a long time
ago.
LaVonna
PS: This is not an official STC response; I'm speaking only of
what I do and do not find to be humorous.
----- from Karen Kay's posting -----------
>A friend of mine sent this to me. I thought it touched on a lot of the
>things we've been discussing before. I apologize if you've all already
>seen this before.
>Karen
> karenk -at- netcom -dot- com
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Forwarded-by: bostic -at- CS -dot- Berkeley -dot- EDU (Keith Bostic)
>> Forwarded-by: cate3 -at- netcom -dot- com
>> From: Mateo -dot- Burtch -at- eng -dot- sun -dot- com (M. Burtch--Specialist in Courier Font)
>>
>> The Society for Technical Communication (STC) released its annual Report
>> on the Status of Technical Writers today. This report, issued by the
>> STC's Writers' Committee on Technical Scribes, monitors the civil and
>> human rights of technical writers throughout the world and documents
[much deleted]
>> --Mateo Burtch
>>
>> (c) 1992 Mateo Burtch
>> Yes, you can forward this; just keep my name attached to it or I'll publicly
>> link you with Ron Reagan.
LaVonna F. Funkhouser Immediate Past President, OK Chapter
lffunkhouser -at- halnet -dot- com Program Manager, 1995 Region 5 Conf.
technical writer Society for Technical Communication
COREStaff Communication Svcs.
My opinions do not officially represent anyone other than me.