[Ipg-smz] Worst press swag ever? Nominations welcome ... here's mine ...

[Tom Henderson]

Great story!

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.

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.

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.

No wonder they don't answer my queries at WaggEd these days.

Tom


On 1/4/20 4:58 PM, Gabe Goldberg via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> Mentioned this thread to a friend, he replied:
>
> Share the KnowledgeWare story:
>
> 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.
>
> The customer sent it back with a knife in it.
>
> On 1/4/2020 2:40 PM, Barbara Krasnoff via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>> -- 
>> Barbara Krasnoff
>> bkrasnoff at gmail.com <mailto:bkrasnoff at gmail.com>
>> http://www.brooklynwriter.com
>>
>> Author of "The History of Soul 2065."
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 1:51 PM Dan Kusnetzky via Ipg-smz 
>> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Don't forget the toy fish Novell sent another year.
>>     -- 
>>     Sent from Dan Kusnetzky's virtual office.
>>     Mispellings and errors courtesy of autocorrect.
>>
>>     On January 4, 2020 12:22:37 PM EST, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz
>>     <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         The inflatable doll novell sent me so I could have an analyst
>>         sitting at my desk while I went to their conference.
>>
>>         On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 8:27 AM Ken Hess via Ipg-smz
>>         <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             You could probably sell it as raw material to a Botox
>>             clinic.
>>
>>             Thanks,
>>
>>             Ken
>>
>>             Kenneth Hess
>>             (918) 630-6236
>>             Twitter: @kenhess
>>             Skype: kenneth_hess
>>             kenhess.com <http://www.kenhess.com/> -
>>             frugalnetworker.com <http://frugalnetworker.com/>
>>             Filmmaker - Podcaster - Reviewer - System Administrator -
>>             Writer
>>
>>
>>             On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM David Needle via Ipg-smz
>>             <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>>
>>                 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?  !!!!
>>
>>
>>                 HP PB&J Swag
>>                 To: David Needle <davidneedle at gmail.com
>>                 <mailto:davidneedle at gmail.com>>
>>
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