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FullImpact and Chuck Norris

#25437
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1988 00:09
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In article <324@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <301@dbase.UUCP> drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>>No, sorry.  Glass was an early code name for the product which will be released
>>as FullImpact.  It is being developed by Encore Systems [ ... ]
>    ^^^^^^^^^^
>As an aside, is this the dumbest name you've ever heard or what?  Sounds like
>an airbag system, or maybe a Chuck Norris movie...
>
>                             Cannon Films
>                          in association with
>                       Exploitation International
>                               presents
>
>                             Chuck Norris
>                                  in
>                             FULL IMPACT!

                  They'd been ABANDONED by their company,
                      SOLD to a giant SOFTWARE EMPIRE,
             FORCED to add FEATURE after FEATURE to FULLWRITE.

              Only ONE MAN can breach the walls of ASHTON-TATE
                        and BRING the VAPORWARE HOME!

[Insert scenes of huddled software engineers, helicopters, and Chuck Norris
    attacking corporate officers with a rocket launcher and a prototype
                               Kay Dynabook]

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         "Is that how a warped brain like
          your's gets its kicks? By planning the
          deaths of innocent people?"
                                        "No... by *causing* the deaths of 
                                         innocent people."

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullImpact and Chuck Norris
Message-ID: <2921@fluke.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 88 00:09:47 GMT
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