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Article #1865

Re: PasteUp Trick!

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From: Eric M Hermanson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:22
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In article <1itij4INNt3c@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan12.035933.27818@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>In article <C0pv1n.Fry@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>>>zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>>>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>>>>versions have this cool "hidden feature".
>
>>>What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
>>>any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
>>>Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
>>>$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
>>>about the screen.
>
>>>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>>>-- NeXTmail ok
>
>>Boy Jeff, why don't you take a deep breath and lighten up a bit.
>
>Right-on!  There's a couple of folks who seem to find fault with just about
>everything that RightBrain does.  What's wrong with a little surprise fun in 
>an app?  If you don't agree with the price, don't buy it.
>
>And Jeff's recent complaint about sexist ads seems pretty weak also.  I really
>don't find a woman with a green right eye and brown left eye holding a French
>horn in Chromagrafx' PixelMaster ad in NeXTWORLD to be a particularly sexist
>ad.  Maybe Chromagrafx was just demonstrating how PixelMaster could change eye
>colorings :-)
>-- 
>
>Art Isbell                                                     Cubic Solutions

I second that motion.  That ad was FAR from sexist.  Oh, but Jeff if probably
right.  That French horn is a phallic symbol, right?  And the woman was 
forced to pose for that picture under duress, right Jeff?  She was USED
by the male-dominated system, according to Jeff.  COME ON!  

Eric
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