[Ipg-smz] Dilbert and tech writers

[Patrick Corrigan]

I think the funniest thing about him is that it took his employers at
Pacific Bell years to figure out he was talking about them.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:52 PM Evan Schuman via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> I was there. I took it all in stride, finding it sufficient to be amused
> by the cartoons he commented on on the overhead. Not sure why he was
> booked, but there were amusing parts.
>
> Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos. If I indeed make any typos,
> trust me that I will blame it on Siri.
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> On Dec 12, 2019, at 5:42 PM, sjvn via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 14:26 -0800, Brian Santo via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> CMP hired Adams to speak at the company's annual editorial gathering
>
> in ... was it '94 or '95? He basically trashed B2B journalists in
>
> front of an audience of B2B journalists. At least a few other people
>
> on this list might have been in the audience, right?
>
>
> I wasn't there, but I heard about it.
>
> That's when I decided he was a funny jerk. Funny? Yes. Jerk? Yes.
>
> As the years have gone by, I see no reason to change my opinion of him.
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