In message <[log in to unmask]>,
"Senn, Bruce" <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Sounds like the same marketing dude/dudette, who came up with the sun
>temperature comparison for ink droplets.  ;-)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:49 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: The 'New hp'

> Was watching a football game last night, and hp ran an ad.  One part
>of the ad pointed out that hp might, someday, be able to make a cell
>phone so small, that even an ant could use it.  My wife remarked that
>she thought that was about the stupidest thing she'd ever heard
>of...why on earth would you even consider such an idiotic thing as
>producing a cell phone for an ant?!!  I told my wife that while I
>couldn't dismiss the notion that hp may actually be trying to make cell
>phones for ants (I mean, just think of the number of phones they could
>sell!!), it was more likely that someone in the marketing department at
>hp thought that was a good analogy for showing folks how small we
>(they) could actually make things, to which my wife replied, well then
>the hp marketing people are idiots.  I didn't have an answer for that one.

How on earth would I still get my messages while I was out if I couldn't
turn on my antsaphone?
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Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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