Trade Shows
Dan Beaton
to come up with excellent quotes on an infinite variety of topics.
Now I am looking for quotes on a subject I have never seen
quotes on: trade shows (i.e., business to business).
Any suggestions?
TIA,
Dan
Frank Bohan
Dan Beaton <ag...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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There once was a man who went to a computer trade show. Each day as
he entered, the man told the guard at the door, "I am a great thief,
renowned for my feats of shoplifting. Be forewarned, for this trade
show shall not escape unplundered."
This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions
of dollars of computer equipment inside, so he watched the man
carefully. But the man merely wandered from booth to booth, humming
quietly to himself.
When the man left, the guard took him aside and searched his
clothes, but nothing was to be found.
On the next day of the trade show, the man returned and chided the
guard saying: "I escaped with a vast booty yesterday, but today will
be even better." So the guard watched him ever more closely, but to
no avail.
On the final day of the trade show, the guard could restrain his
curiosity no longer. "Sir Thief," he said, "I am so perplexed, I
cannot live in peace. Please enlighten me. What is it that you are
stealing?"
The man smiled. "I am stealing ideas," he said.
----- From The Tao of Programming, translated by Geoffrey James
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Frank B
Don Olivier
> Over the years, I have been amazed by the capacity of this group
> to come up with excellent quotes on an infinite variety of topics.
> Now I am looking for quotes on a subject I have never seen
> quotes on: trade shows (i.e., business to business).
(I had to quote all of that because I'm a sucker for flattery.)
I've never seen any either, but this tasty little confection seems to
belong here (if it belongs anywhere).
This! my dear sir, is the Barkington-Payson Semi-Automatic
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will not find, in this exhibition or in all the world, another
SALSUCDADS that even compares with it.... Come over here to the
finely crafted pumble shoe fabricated in Du\:sseldorf. Notice the
solid turkey piece, the gleaming yodelagnia, and the pure steel
bellows spring. Now, the turkey piece is directly linked to a
superbly calibrated meltonian rod, at the base of which you will
find an unusual feature common only to top-of-the-line SALSUCDADS--
a blue oscar chuck! ... Look at those intake blades. Have you ever
seen such intake blades? ... A doubly protected fen wheel! Shielded
from the pacer by a rock-solid tandy piece! Open it and feel the
smooth calabrian underglide. Now, let's get to the point. You have
half a million dollars of undercracking to budge across. Do you use
a cheap piece of cat crap? Of course not, not someone like you....
-- Mark Helprin
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Don Olivier ** Harvard School of Public Health ** d...@hsph.harvard.edu
A manly scent that women like too
>
> There once was a man who went to a computer trade show. . . .
> The man smiled. "I am stealing ideas," he said.
>
> ----- From The Tao of Programming, translated by Geoffrey James
But to West's surprise, one of the cabinets stood open and a
man with tools was standing in front of it. . . . West stood
around and watched him work, and in a little while, the tech-
nician packed up his tools and left.
Then West closed the door, went back across the room to the
computer, which was now all but fully assembled, and began to
take it apart.
--Tracy Kidder, _The Soul of a New Machine_
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
home: col...@mail.monmouth.com
work: sich...@lucent.com
web: <http://www.monmouth.com/~colonel/>