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<br><div><div>On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Joe Owens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think it should look like an "emmy" kneeling down in front of a "board</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extended" quad machine with Tek Lab scope, schematics and manuals all</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">around.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It will look very familiar.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gary</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PS. You all know which ad I am talking about.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "> </div></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes, indeed. or perhaps only half a torso (waist-down) protruding from a lower bay, cards removed. (with a semi-contented "yummy" expression on the "face" of the quad being serviced....)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Joe Owens</div></span></div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And someone's getting cost estimates, right? : )</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On the design and award manufacturing... not on the VR-2000 service. That's likely to be more.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>This reminded me of the post one long-time Post House engineer made when the series of ads referred to above was the subject of a thread on another forum (TIG, I think...) </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The ad made him think of the outline of an engineer they laid out in white tape on the floor in front of a piece of particularly time-consuming equipment. Rank, I think.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ted</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>