Re: [Linux-aus] LWE Marketing Strategy

Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> · Thu May 19 23:54:02 2005

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:08:15 +1000
From: Craige McWhirter <craige@mcwhirter.com.au>
To: linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] LWE Marketing Strategy
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:59 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
  Linux Australia: F*CK YEAH!
Other suggestions? Please discuss.

While everyone else's contributions to this thread have been noble and
valiant efforts, the most obvious (and perhaps the only) required
suggestion to complete the marketing strategy would be:
:%s/*/U/g
Although after a long and painful conversation with a .us colleague
today, a play on cross cultural language differences might work well:
Linux Australia: "Come and get rooted."
Damn, I think I just wasted a good t-shirt idea for Dunedin :/
--
Cheers,
     Craige.

The appropriate response to both messages above, is that it is simply a 
matter of how much you intend to offend and alienate the public.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 you'll know what the answer means."
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  Chapter 28 of
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  written by Douglas Adams,
  published by Pan Books, 1992
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