____/ Sinister Midget on Tuesday 25 March 2008 15:30 : \____
> On 2008-03-25, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> Scolded, Microsoft Takes Blame For Swarms of Butterfly Decals
>>
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>>| The corporation accepted the blame yesterday for hundreds of plastic
>>| butterfly decals that were affixed across the face of Midtown Manhattan as
>>| part of a $300 million promotional campaign for its new MSN 8 Internet
>>| service.
>> `----
>>
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E6DD1E3CF935A15753C1A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=dunlap+microsoft&st=nyt
>
> Don't they realize their new campaign would have been a thousand times
> more effective had they affixed those decals to car, truck and bus
> windshields? It would have been a perfect pitch had they placed them
> right in the middle of the driver's view so (s)he could think about
> them on the commute around the city.
They tried this, but the butterflies are all dead now, so they fell off. No
butterfly can survive working for the Dark Forces... MWAHAHAHAH! *sigh*
FWIW, IBM was accused of tossing toxic waste.
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