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Re: xmas shopping

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From: Gary L. Dare
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 00:15
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kEN Colburn (ezwriter@netcom.com) wrote:

: The japanese have brainwashed American parents into buying this 
: overpriced CRAP for their bratty kids instead of TEACHING them
: something or READING to them from an actual BOOK.

The Japanese are only taking opportunities for a market that was there
waiting to be mined ...  and don't ignore that almost all of the software
is designed in North America.  Those Sega boxes would be running multi-
media versions of Shakespeare if there was a demand.  Brainwashing???
Pah!!  Nothing to wash ...

gld
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From: gld@prairienet.org (Gary L. Dare)
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Subject: Re: xmas shopping
Date: 8 Dec 1994 00:15:00 GMT
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