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- From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
- Subject: Re: Roach hotel
- Message-ID: <9212311602.hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
- References: <1992Dec21.151140.23535@crd.ge.com> <1992Dec23.190802.26963@ssc.com> <BzruwA.3nx@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec31.031335.22058@cabezon.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:02:12 GMT
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- sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
-
- >This brings to mind a real UL about a hotel in Charleston, S.C.,....
- > [bulk deleted]
- >She was placated, until she noticed a little piece of paper still in
- >the envelope. Apparently a note from the manager to his secretary,
- >it said, "Send this old bag the Roach Letter."
-
- A related story appears in P. G. Wodehouse's 1910 novel _Psmith_in_
- _the_City_. After his friend is fired in the presence of a customer,
- Psmith suggests the firing may have been for show:
-
- ``In America, as possibly you are aware, there is a regular post
- of mistake-clerk, whose duty it is to receive in the neck anything
- that happens to be coming along when customers make complaints.
- He is hauled into the presence of the foaming customer, cursed,
- and sacked. The customer goes away appeased. The mistake-clerk,
- if the harangue has been unusually energetic, applies for a rise
- of salary.''
-
- Dan Hoey
- Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
-