At 05:13 PM 5/3/99 -0700, Bruce Toback wrote:
>Glenn Cole quotes news.com quoting Brad Day speaking for Giga Information
>Group:
>
>>However, the 3000 line always
>>will play second fiddle to the HP 9000 systems running HP-UX, HP's
>>Unix operating system, he said.
>
>I was trying to come up with a clever bit of sarcasm to respond to this,
>but I couldn't. This was puzzling, since I usually have no trouble
>thinking up sarcastic remarks. I finally figured out that the statement
>is so completely vacuous that there's nothing there to parody.
>

How about:

 "The 3000 *won't* always play second fiddle at HP.  It's clearly in line
to play *third* fiddle soon."

>Damn.
>

Really.

>-- Bruce
>
>

Bill