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<p>Mentioned this thread to a friend, he replied:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Share
the KnowledgeWare story: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">One
of the KW founders was Fran Tarkenton, former NFL quarterback.
At one point before Sterling bought them, KW was in big trouble:
product wasn’t working well, customers were angry, etc. To try
to appease one of them, they sent the customer an autographed
football. <br>
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<p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The
customer sent it back with a knife in it.</span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/4/2020 2:40 PM, Barbara Krasnoff
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<div dir="auto">When I was at Computer Shopper, some genius -
don't remember the product - sent an envelope of spent bullet
shells with a note that read something like, "Something is
coming for the editors of Computer Shopper." We weren't the only
pub that called the authorities... <br>
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<div>Don't forget the toy fish Novell sent another year.<br>
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Sent from Dan Kusnetzky's virtual office.<br>
Mispellings and errors courtesy of autocorrect.<br>
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<div dir="auto">The inflatable doll novell sent me so I
could have an analyst sitting at my desk while I went
to their conference. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">You could probably sell it as raw
material to a Botox clinic.
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Although the "bigger" story here is that
I found this in a box of stuff from 2010 and
earlier. Why in the world did I save this?
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