[geeks] M$ advertising

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:42:43PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 26, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > > I don't really get it either.  Wouldn't they be cream cheese colored
> > > > if they spent all their time running a NOC?
> > > > 
> > > > Did they fail to look like they had a clue?  What?
> > > 
> > >   Nonono...they were a bunch of buff, pretty-boy, suit-wearing morons
> > > with management hair.  Yuppies, basically.  People who do what they're
> > > told.
> > > 
> > >   The kind of people who buy Cadillac Escalades, if that puts a fine
> > > enough point on it.
> > 
> > Oh.  When you said models, I was thinking they brought in females and
> > put them in NOC appropriate attire.
> 
>   Same basic kind of bullshit, but mostly males.

Not the same.  OK, maybe some people wouldn't like the inauthenticity
of switching people at all.  But there is a big difference between
pretty people convincingly playing the part (T-shirts, non-management
hair, etc), and pretty people who look completely out of place.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd