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Message-ID: <1f3w3d0.cytefy1xoy5x4N%jwgh@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Get it RIGHT this time, pal! From: "Jacob W. Haller" <jwgh at earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:47:13 GMT
Nicko <snick2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Title referring to the shirt I made for the Tam-meister some time ago.
Have I told the tee shirt story yet? It doesn't look like it.
When I started working at my last job, my employer's main product was a web site called gamelan. It was a Java directory which allowed Java developers to exchange code and the like.
So there was a big conference coming up that we were going to have a booth at which we were going to use to plug the site. And of course this meant that the people manning the booth had to have TEE SHIRTS! Because nothing says successful company like TEE SHIRTS!
They solicited suggestions for slogans to put on the tee shirts, then emailed around all the suggestions and asked people to vote on them. The quality of the slogans may be judged by the fact that the winner, "Gamelan: We'll show you ours if you show us yours", was actually arguably the best suggestion. (The slogan, of course, referred to the whole swapping code thing.)
So a couple of weeks went by, the time of the conference was approaching, and suddenly the old tee shirt idea was discarded and a new one was used instead. (1 theory is that someone who was to go to the conference did not want to wear a tee shirt that said "we'll show you ours if you show us yours".) The new slogan was not one of the ones that had been voted on previously, but was something made up on the spur of the moment by one of the company founders. The new slogan was:
"Gamelan: We're not just the solution...we're part of the problem."
Nobody was sure what this meant.
Now I'm bored. Please for to be posting something entertaining involving clowns, cheese, orange cones, durian and BEES.
Then a cheese-covered clown on roller skates stole the tee shirts! So Spot came up with a new tee shirt design involving orange cones and durians, but the smell of the durians attracted BEES. Poor Spot!
The enb.
-jwgh
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