Stan writes:

> Wirt writes:
>
>  > Rather, what I wanted to explain in some detail was that whenever I see
> the
>  > phrase, "MPE USERS KICK BUTT!", I still think of Bart Simpson. Bart seems
> to
>  > me to be the perfect representative for the HP3000.
>
>  I prefer Lisa as a representative ... quiet, smart, talented.
>
>  Bart is the PC ... loud, in your face, dumb.
>
>  Our primary HP 3000 is named "lisa", and our RS 6000 is "bart".
>
>  (We originally named all of our 3000s and Unix boxes after Simpsons
>  characters...."homer" is a 9000/350 (old, and slow))
>  ("maggie" is our 3000/37 our littlest HP 3000)

The problem is that I could never imagine Lisa saying, "MPE USERS KICK BUTT!"
-- and that phrase was too good to pass up.

I agree that Lisa may be a much better image of the what the HP3000 truly is,
but it could also use a strong dose of Bart, too. It can't stay "quiet, smart,
and talented" forever. A little in-your-face brashness goes a long ways
sometimes.

Besides, if we had gotten permission to use Bart, I suspect an awful lot of
people would have liked to have smaller versions (perhaps 24" x 36", large
enough enough to seen well from anywhere in the largest DP room) of the poster
hanging on their walls, with a picture of Bart with a raised fist, saying what
he was supposed to be saying.

Wirt Atmar