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Subject:Re: Using Humor **** Judiciously **** From:DAVID IBBETSON <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 May 1996 22:30:56 -0400
Scott quotes (I've lost track of who wrote it:
>>However, I have worked on Army manuals (M1A1 Abrams, thank yew very much) in
>>which one inserted a line drawing of a very very large busted lady to GRAB
>>the soldier's attention. I swear to Iacocca it's true.
As an undergraduate taking maths (I think it was the first lecture on the
first day) our lecturer, demonstrating the width of the concept of a
mathematical function started to undo his flies, looked up and noticed that
we weren't a unisex audience, but the point was successfully made.
I too have attended military lectures "enlivened" by pictures too hot for
page 3. But that was when the British army was unisex.
David (the idiot) Ibbetson
David Ibbetson, Ontario, Canada ibbetson -at- idirect -dot- com
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
Solon, quoted in Heredotos, Histories bk1 ch 32.
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