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  Msg#: 778                                          Date: 05-03-94  20:26
  From: Doug Ward                                    Read: Yes    Replied: No 
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  Subj: Gags /3
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You can do this to a business associate whom you think is a jerk:

Get a few copies of his business card.  Hopefully, it has his home
phone number on it.  Go to your local red-light district and
pass them out to the girls (or guys) saying "Call me some time."

This is most effective if he has a family.  If he is single, he
may want to thank you.

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My father loves to tell of the builder he knows who had to evict some guy
from one of his rental houses.  It seems the renter left his pet in the
master bedroom.  A duck with lots of food and water...  The builder
didn't get around to checking out the house for about a week.
Yech.  Needless to say, the not only the carpet needed replacement, but
the sub-floor also.

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Apparently there is a well-known story in the television industry about
the
early days, when parts were scarce and 'friendly competition' was just be-
ginning between the networks.  There was going to be an important speech
by
someone important, probably President Eisenhower or someone of that
stature.
Naturally, all (both?) of the networks wanted to cover this speech.  But on
the day of the speech, the tube in NBC's camera went dead.  There was no
hope to order a replacement in time, so the NBC brass called the CBS brass
to ask if they could borrow a tube until they could get a replacement
(maybe they borrowed a whole camera, I don't know).  At any rate, the
good-natured guys at CBS said sure, they would deliver a tube to them in
plenty of time for the speech.

Well they DID loan NBC a tube, but not before setting it up in a camera
and
focusing it on the brightly lit door to the men's room.  To understand what
happened, you must realize that these early "image-orthicon" tubes were
ex-
tremely sensitive.  So sensitive in fact, that a bright unchanging image
would "burn-in" to the face of the tube and remain for hours, or even
permanently if the damage was severe enough.   So to make a long story even
longer, when NBC brodcasted the speech, the president appeared with "MEN"
emblazoned across his forehead.  Of course they discovered it much too late
to do anything about it (this was live TV, folks).

(This was a story I heard from someone who worked at a CBS affiliate TV
station and may or may not be true, or the networks involved may be wrong.)

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A little gentler trick that a co-worker pulled up here a few years ago
depended on the sound module from one of those dolls that cries unless
you rock it back and forth. He fastened it to the bottom of someone's
chair. The someone comes and sits down, and starts working on his
terminal. As he gets into it, this vague "wa-wa" noise starts up from
some unidentifiable direction. The victim looks around (moving the chair)
and the crying stops. Oh, well, who cares. Back to work. A little later,
the crying starts up again. This one was good for several minutes.

Oh yes, someone mentioned freon bombs. Things can get hairy with those
around a power supply design group. And the following is a good way
to make a switcher designer an enemy for life - or a few days, at least:


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