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    <p>Great story!</p>
    <p>Microsoft once sent a delegation to my lab, which was  located in
      a 14x24 level of my home where two full-sized racks of equipment
      lived. A limo arrived, with pizza, and the delegation of five.<br>
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    <p>I had two cockatiels at the time. One liked to perch on my
      shoulder, the other was much more shy. I didn't think about the
      bird being on my shoulder; he came and perched, or sat atop one of
      the racks for hits heat.</p>
    <p>Except he want on the top of (senior product manager's name
      redacted)'s head, where it was time to move his bowels. Then he
      flew back to my shoulder as we ate the pizza.</p>
    <p>No wonder they don't answer my queries at WaggEd these days.<br>
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    <p>Tom</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/4/20 4:58 PM, Gabe Goldberg via
      Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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      <p>Mentioned this thread to a friend, he replied:</p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Share the KnowledgeWare story: <br>
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      <p class="MsoNormal"><span>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>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
        via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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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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            Barbara Krasnoff<br>
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            <a href="http://www.brooklynwriter.com"
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            Author of "The History of Soul 2065."<br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 1:51 PM
            Dan Kusnetzky via Ipg-smz <<a
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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 class="gmail_quote">On January 4, 2020 12:22:37 PM
                EST, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz <<a
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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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                      2020, 8:27 AM Ken Hess via Ipg-smz <<a
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                      <div dir="ltr">You could probably sell it as raw
                        material to a Botox clinic.
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                          2020 at 9:15 AM David Needle via Ipg-smz <<a
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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
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Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc.       <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gabe@gabegold.com" moz-do-not-send="true">gabe@gabegold.com</a>
3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042           (703) 204-0433
LinkedIn: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold</a>            Twitter: GabeG0
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Tom Henderson
ExtremeLabs, Inc.
+1 317 250 4646
Twitter: @extremelabs
Skype: extremelabsinc</pre>
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