Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0

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

At 11:13 AM -0700 10/9/98, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> I just took a peek at the Gomes Gopher shirt.
>
> IMHO, it would be a LOT better not to depict *any* person at all. Simply a
> picture of the back-hoe, bright yellow, in the gun-sights. Make is a
> hi-tech gun-sight with ranging ranging, azimuth, and elevation markings.
> The back-hoe should be one of those enclosed driver compartment types so
> the operator can't be seen.
>
> No matter which operator is depicted, someone could construe it as being
> racially/ personally defamitory. This would prevent many of us from wearing
> it in the work-place.
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