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Re: HOW OLD are you?

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From: Telamon
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:39
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In article <1191315291.005210.270670@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
 SFTV_troy <SFTV_troy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Telamon wrote:
> >  SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I've worked in sales, but I tried to avoid lying.
> >
> > That's an impossibility.
> 
> James Cash Penney would disagree with you.  (He was an extremely 
> religious and honest man - he even refused to accept credit cards, on 
> the grounds that he thought it wrong to drive people into debt.  He 
> would rather lose a sale than do that.)

Fine. Then it would be an impossibility for you.

> > > For example when I was in college I worked for Sears.  They 
> > > instructed me to "sell extended warranties" I complied, but I 
> > > also told the customers that I thought it was un-necessary.
> > >
> > > Sears didn't like me very much - what with telling the truth.
> >
> > That would be an expected result.
> 
> Uh huh.  Good thing I became an engineer - I wouldn't be able to work 
> for long lying to Sears' customers.

I don't think you are an engineer.

> > > > I'd expect an electrical engineer to be more knowledgeable than 
> > > > your posts indicate.
> > >
> > > If you think one person can possibly know EVERYTHING there is to 
> > > know about the subject of electronics/electrical devices.
> >
> > Not really. Just what you promote.
> 
> 
> Just because we don't share the same opinion, does not mean one of us 
> is idiotic.

It does not exclude it either.

> That premise is false Telemon.  It could be that we are both 100% 
> correct (with respect to targeting different interest groups). You 
> are correct that AM is better for long-distance listening for old 
> people.

So you believe in age based reality? That does not sound like an 
engineer to me.

> And I am correct that young people want many, many more stations on 
> the dial (they like variety).

That's not what you wrote. You wrote about more possible channels.
 
> We are both correct.

Nope.

I find nothing endearing in a sock puppet.

-- 
Telamon
Ventura, California
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Subject: Re: HOW OLD are you?
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