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- From: asper@sbctri.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
- Subject: Re: Cadillacs (WAS: INFFINITI vs BMW)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.193726.19900@sbctri.sbc.com>
- Keywords: real life yeah right
- Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St.Louis, MO
- References: <CARL.92Nov18133713@atlantis.Cayman.COM> <Bxxw4D.B70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.185925.11880@acd4.acd.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:37:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.185925.11880@acd4.acd.com> jbii@HDFS1.acd.com ( John O. Bell II ) writes:
- >I want to know how you got these prices, seeing as I was in C/U here recently
- >looking at cars... of course, I'm not blind to the extra $20,000 that you seem
- >to have overlooked. In Champaign especially, since it is a campus town full
- >of rich ivory-tower professors that have no idea what cars _really_ cost.
- ^^^^
-
- This is a joke, right? My advisor at UIUC congratulated me on how I, with an
- MS, was getting a higher salary to start than he was making after 10 years
- in the professor business. He drove an old Toyota beater, as did a lot
- of his colleagues.
- I _will_ admit to the ivory-tower bit, however. ;-)
- Alan
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