The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33756   Message #516631
Posted By: JohnInKansas
28-Jul-01 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Silly/Stupid Product Descriptions
Subject: RE: BS: Silly/Stupid Product Descriptions
John Hardly:
It has been a running joke in the Winfield Festival campgrounds for about 3 years now. Apparently a (possibly slightly inebriated) person of feminime persuasion exited a portapot complaining loudly that when she put her purse in the "purse holder" it got all wet. "IT LOOKED LIKE SOMEBODY HAD P..S..D IN THE PURSEHOLDER!"

A mention of the "Do Not Open Until" inside the box brings to mind a couple of years ago when I bought a couple of IOMEGA Zip drives. The installation manual was .... on a Zip Disk.

One of the well known Hard Drive manufacturers printed an announcement in a number of 'puter magazines several years back, announcing the WOD (Write Only Drive). They reportedly got requests for more information from several thousand people - each of whom was refered to the APRIL 1, 19XX date prominently included in the ad.
(If you've ever tried to get a restore out of your SA, you might believe he uses one for backups.)

But our dear beloved MickeySoft, through at least the last 5 or 6 Op System versions has included detailed information (27 linked references in one version) on how to SEND FAXES. There is NO entry giving any information on how to set up your machine to RECEIVE a FAX.

Current and recent versions of Outlook Express give detailed informations on how to back up your email. There is no suggestion of how to retrieve, recover, restore, replace, download, or "get" an email from a backup.

Maybe they expect you to back up only to the WOD.

John