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More adventures of Tina the Brittle Technical Writer
Subject:More adventures of Tina the Brittle Technical Writer From:Matthew Stern <MAStern -at- PLATSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:08:00 -0800
The latest Tina was December 11 when the boss (a/k/a as the "pointy-hair
imbicile") told her, "Your first draft was boring, so I added a bunch of
exclamation points."
And, yes, that happened to a friend of mine who wrote for a computer
magazine. Every article he submitted was published as written, but with
exclamation points added every few sentences.
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Matthew Stern
Sr. Technical Writer
Platinum Software Corporation
Opinions expressed here are solely my own, but I can imagine that my
company is probably tired of that Dr. Seuss parody as well. :)
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