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Article #3210Re: Jeff Ullman/Great Expectations in last Sunday's Times
From: Don Hosek
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 22:15
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 22:15
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In article <2imc57$ipr@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>, lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) writes: > In article <zeroyCKF9ny.Bx9@netcom.com> zeroy@netcom.com (Roy M. Randall) writes: >>I once made the error of returning to GE one of their blind mailed >>questionaire forms. I was immediately called by a salesman who tried to >>arrange a meeting with me in my home. > What was the big deal about insisting on a meeting in your home > anyway? They called me and absolutely insisted that I couldn't > just drop by their local office...that they absolutely HAD to > do an in-home interview. > What were they doing, casing the place for burglary, or just > trying in a sneaky way to compute my income from my furnishings? My guess is that it's an attempt to help weed out people who are married. -dh -- Don Hosek "The Only Solution is Love" Quixote Digital Typography -Dorothy Day 909-621-1291 FAX: 909-625-1342 personal: dhosek@pitzer.edu business: 70511.1652@compuserve.com
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