Subj : Another facetious reply To : DAVE COBLE From : Todd Sullivan Date : Wed Feb 02 2005 19:48:08 DAVE COBLE and ALL will demonstrate tag-team Another Oldie. Everyone take notes. DC> Okay, I guess it's time to let the cat out of the bag.... It's dead. DC> *I* bought Commodore International, Ltd.!!!! DC> I thought about buying a bottle of "Pepsi Free" yesterday, but DC> instead, I decided to put that dollar bill to better use. So, in a fit DC> of impulsive frenzy, I flew down to the Bahamas and purchased DC> Commodore International for ONE DOLLAR, thereby saving the Amiga DC> computer platform from an uncertain, oblivious future! As a side DC> benefit, I have spared the current Amiga-using community of the endless DC> torture of constant rumor-mongering! Well, at least no more rumors. DC> As the new owner of Commodore, I, Robert Owens, hearby pledge to: DC> - Hire Howard Stern, Roseanne Arnold, and Barney the Purple Dinosaur as DC> spokespersons for the company! We're doomed. DC> - Give the Amiga a new name: "Rowdy Rob's Box o' Fun!" Complete with WWE music and walk-on? DC> - Slap all Macintosh and PC users I come into direct contact with! You could have done that for free. DC> - Encourage all Amiga owners to get green mohawk hairdos! you. DC> - Re-introduce the Vic-20 computer to the power-starved masses! TRy the C-64; we won't laugh as hard...or cry. DC> - Burn 50 copies of MS-DOS each workday morning! Do that many copies still exist? DC> - Give away a box of Twinkies with each Amiga purchase! Paging Harvey Milk... DC> - Get some underworld thugs to kick Irving Gould's butt off of the DC> company premises! Some Team Amiga members would do that for free. DC> - Enjoy a cruel laugh as Electronic Arts' 3DO system flops in the DC> marketplace! Been there, done that, DC> - Produce sexist Amiga commercials featuring 50 scantily-clad models DC> undulating over a pile of Amiga computers! (Hey, it works for DC> Budwieser!) You get a better "buzz" from Bud. DC> - Use my newly acquired clout to convince Newtek to "Get rid of that DC> Wil Wheaton chump!" Try Alt.Wesley.Crusher.die.die.die! DC> - Release a swarm of killer bees at Microsoft headquarters! To catch the escaping brain-waves? (Scott Adams joke) DC> - Include autographed photos of myself in each computer box (in order DC> to attract more females to the Amiga platform!)! Lieber Paula has just smashed her monitor. DC> - Hire a bunch of wild, inbred chimpanzees as marketing executives! DC> (hey, how much worse could they be?) Stop repeating the past! DC> - Find out once and for all if Atari ST owners actually exist, or are DC> just mythical figures with no basis in fact! Jay Miner and Dave Haynie are sharpening large, heavy-bladed instruments, I hear. DC> - Keep the same 8-year-old, 4-channel sound chip. (Let's see how long DC> we can milk this sucker!) About as long as we can 24-bit color. DC> - Sit through an entire episode of SeaQuest DSV without falling asleep! NEVER HAPPEN! DC> - Include the game "Bloodthirsty Buttkickers from Mars" with each CD32 DC> game console! *PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED*! /Mars/ /Attacks!/ bombed in theaters. DC> - Skim company profits for my own personal benefit! (You didn't DC> seriously think I would let Gould and Ali have all the fun, did you?) Jay and Dave will have company. DC> - Hold my breath until Dave Haynie comes back to work for Commodore! Got your death taxes paid up? DC> - Provide the R&D department with an endless supply of beer and Jello! That's how we got ISA instead of PCI, moron! DC> - Sell the names of all known PC users to kinky mailing lists! Which ones /aren't/ they on? DC> - Introduce a new marketing slogan: "Buy Amigas. We need the money!" Honesty. what a concept. DC> - Or how about: "Get Funky, Get Hype, Get Fresh, Get Stoopid... Get DC> AMIGA!" Get /OUT/! DC> .... and last, but not least, DC> I pledge to promote peace, tranquility, and brotherly love amongst DC> owners of all brands of computers, so that together, we may ease the DC> ills of our society and promote the attributes of generosity, justice, DC> virtue, and most of all, wisdom and intelligence. DC> For once the world at large develops these traits, they will all DC> collectively wonder..... WHY IN THE HECK DID WE OVERLOOK THE AMIGA IN DC> THE FIRST PLACE?!?! MS-DOS?!?! WHAT WERE WE THINKING?!? What have you been smoking? DC> So, fellow Amigans, rejoice and be in good cheer, for *I* am now DC> the head honcho at Commodore! Happy days are here again! DC> Yours Truly, DC> Robert W. Owens DC> New CEO, Commodore International, Ltd. And now, everyone who read this (but me) will suffer massive strokes. Mercy killings? Todd Sullivan .... Better to light one fundy than curse the darkness. --- Spot 1.3b Unregistered * Origin: Todd's Spot In Orlando (1:3613/1275.12) .