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  2. From: barrett@karazm.math.uh.edu (Dan Barrett)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Commodore Announces Winners of 4000 Reasons Contest
  5. Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
  6. Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:02:00 GMT
  7. Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
  8. Lines: 30
  9. Message-ID: <1eeb08INNcu9@menudo.uh.edu>
  10. References: <19366@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <OAHVENLA.92Nov18204723@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
  11. Reply-To: barrett@cs.umass.edu
  12. NNTP-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu
  13.  
  14. >In article <19366@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> sue@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Sue West - CATS) writes:
  15. >[some winners:]
  16. >>REASON: "Since it was first introduced, the Amiga has been a pioneer.
  17. >>        While IBM users anticipate the next innovation, Amiga owners
  18. >>    are already using it."
  19.  
  20. >>REASON: "Used a MAC at school! Used an IBM at work. Bought an Amiga
  21. >>        for home. To use it is to choose it!"
  22.  
  23. In article <OAHVENLA.92Nov18204723@lk-hp-4.hut.fi> oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:
  24. >OH F*CK!! IS THIS TRUE?! Things like THAT win an A4000, and I can't even
  25. >take part in the contest! Mind-blowing!  [etc etc]
  26.  
  27.     Calm down.  The contest was just for fun.  The judging was done
  28. according to whatever standards the judges wanted, and there is no way
  29. to know what kind of "reason" they were looking for.  Commodore didn't
  30. have to have a contest at all; it's nice that they did it.
  31.  
  32.     Heck, I thought *my* reason was *infinitely* better than any of the
  33. winning entries ("Buy an Amiga or I'll fucking KILL you") but you don't hear
  34. me whining about it. :-)
  35.  
  36.     Followups are directed to c.s.a.advocacy.
  37.  
  38.                                                         Dan
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  41. | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center |
  42. | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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