Re: Quote of the day!

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () clark net>]

At 11:58 -0400 7/21/97, Eric Germann wrote:
> Quote from an Ameritech rep after being verbally abused in a meeting for
> them dropping a clients T-1 FOUR times cause nobody would write it down in
> the book:
>
> "We may suck, but we suck less!"
>
> At 10:04 PM 7/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > >  From someone-I-can't-name-cuzza-their-job:
> > >  "MFS is the spawn of satan, it's all a conspiracy to send us back to the
> > > dark ages of hand-written communication."
> >
> > How about the words that summ up MFS's (WorldCom's) entry into the local
> > phone market:
> >
> > My Fone Sucks...
> >
> > Also works with Amerisuck - Your Link to Pain and Suffering!
> >
> > After working with these kinds of telco problems all week you just have to
> > make up nice titles for them ;-)

It's not just the transmission side.  In 1981 or so, at the first GTE
corporate network symposium, shortly after it bought Telenet, I gave a
presentation on Telenet's network management architecture.

My obligatory opening joke suggested that electronic mail could be regarded
as a technology that would allow the Postal Service to lose the mail at the
speed of light.

A hand in the audience arose...turning out to be the President/COO of GTE.
He looked at me and asked "what about your own company's offering,
Telemail?"

I took a deep breath.  "Oh. We lose it slower."

Howard