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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Judith Mth that collections of
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- References: <Bzz243.JCx@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec29.080727.2003@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:05:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.080727.2003@netcom.com> tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox) writes:
- >In article <Bzz243.JCx@NeoSoft.com> claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- >>z
- >>Tom Peters and some business journalists give the impression
- >>that CPI is in the little things: one lone operative in the
- >>Rockies hiring a helicopter to get the parcel through, one
- >>production team voting to rationalize its break schedule. I
- >>suspect there's some rugged-individualist Americana in this.
- >>At the same time, I know how easy it is to abstract my work-table
- >>illumination problem to the point where we'd have a fantastic ROI,
- >>but we're unable to accomplish anything definite ("no, this is
- >>Expires:
- >>References: <Bzs03t.KKH@dcs.glasgowwe really
- >>need to provide adequate lighting for all the welders--no, we
- >>have to make sure that lclaird
- >>Caitlin
- >>tm
- >>trn
- >>nn R
- >
- > A remarkable posting, fit to stand beside Mark Taranto's sublime
- >"alias" text.
-
- Not as poetic as Taranto's which had a certain haiku-like
- fascination but Cameron's does seem to have a definite esoteric
- dimension. It has the code words (ROI and CPI) and then that dwindling
- off towards the end, kind of like the Python gang in the cave during
- the Grail hunt. "What did he say?" He said urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."
- Certainly a linguistic analysis could be applied to "voting to
- rationalize its break schedule" and "adequate lighting for all the
- welders"
-
- Why? Because we like you. Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
-
- --
-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-