Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 at 10:53:30PM +0000, trotter wrote:
> At 22:44 02/12/2008, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Has anyone been annoyed by the silly Microsoft advert where clueless people
> > > claim that they are a PC?
> > >
> >Amazing coincidence but it's been driving me potty too, it came on at the
> >weekend and I leapt from my chair proclaiming "I'm not a PC, I'm a free man",
> >my wife did give me an odd look but then said how much it's been annoying her
> >too. It's just an attempt to reinforce the idea that PC means Windows, it's
> >rather pathetic & scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's the best they
> >can come up with.
>
>
> I hate the mac advert rip off as well.
> The idea is there but surely its just too long ago when the mac ads were
> running for it to be a riposte?

I suppose a one of response would have been okay as you suggest.
Novell managed that pretty quickly.

> But i guess in true Microsoft fashion it takes them ages to get
> anything done :)

Indeed, and even then it's an MS Annoying Advert 2.0 as the
original 1.0 advert with BillG was even worse...

> BTW the ad was made on an apple mac!
> If you stop it the ad theres some give away sign in it.
> Can you say Own goal?

That is interesting. How do you know?

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in
to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists