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- From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
- Subject: Re: Dances With Wolves Promotion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.000757.29324@holos0.uucp>
- Organization: Holos Software, Inc.
- References: <4JAN199310093268@eldyn.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan5.080047.190@ipact.com> <1993Jan8.225301.14577@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 00:07:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.225301.14577@pony.Ingres.COM> daveb@lotus (Dave Brower, DBMS hack, [510] 748-3418) writes:
- >You paid a whopping 8 bucks and are complaining about the quality?
-
- So if you spend eight dollars on something you have no right to expect
- it to be any good? Why not just set fire to a five and three ones?
-
- McDonalds didn't advertise these tapes as being sub-standard knock-offs.
- There was no reason for any consumer to believe that they were anything
- but first quality pre-recorded tapes that were a bargain because of a
- promotional deal between McDonalds and the studio.
-
- >It's a miracle it plays at all with the
- >quantities that had to have been made!
-
- What in the world does this mean? The mass quantities are what should
- allow a quality product to be made at a low price.
-
- >Your expectations should have been pretty low -- about like those you
- >brought for the Quarter Pounder you got with it.
-
- One's expectations for a Quarter Pounder are that it be like every other
- Quarter Pounder. No, it's not a great sandwhich, but you know what
- you're getting. One's expectations for a tape of a movie are that it
- play at least as well as the typical video tapes one buys or rents.
-
- Man, you sure packed a lot of nonsense into three sentences.
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