Message-Id: <9604300113.AA21479@portnoy.MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-soc@MIT.EDU, sipb-cd-crap@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 04/29/96
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:13:31 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
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> marthag: I move that we allocate whatever funds that we have
>          left to buy a industrial-strength CD player.

Apparently, some people forget after 3 years, so perhaps a reminder
is in order.  This is, of course, purely in jest.  Really.

+ Richard

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To: marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, sipb-prospectives@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: CD player 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 May 93 15:36:27 -0400.
             <9305051936.AA15684@milquetoast.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 05 May 93 17:32:19 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>

[Fade into department store scene, fluorescent lighting, boring
 elevator music in background.  Martha enters.]

Clerk [smiling]:  Hi.  May I help you?

Martha:  Yes, I'm interesting in buying a CD player.

Clerk [smiling]:  Oh, wonderful.  We're having a sale.  Let me show
	you this model:  it has auto-repeat, 5-CD carousel, remote control,
	toaster oven....

Martha [eyes rolling]:  Uhm, no.  This is for our office.  We don't
	need any fancy features....

Clerk [smiling]:  Ah, ok.  @i(This) model comes with high-fidelty speakers,
	excellent bass, automatic equilization, fuzzy logic...just perfect
	for an office setting...

Martha [grimacing]:  No, we want something @i(durable)....

Clerk [smiling, by this point it's apparent that he has severe facial
	nerve damage preventing normal expressions]:  Ah, ok, well
	@i(this) model is designed for use in deluxe Sherman tanks.
	It has armor plating, rotating machine gun....

Martha [sighing]:  Closer, but still not good enough.  We need something
	that can survive a fall from a 6-story building, be submerged
	in a vat of boiling carbonic acid, receive CDs stained with
	Dominoes pizza, survive freezing temperatures [for when marc
	comes into the office], and be handled by dyslexic gorillas.
	The only other features required are "play" and "eject" buttons.

Clerk [smiling]:  Uhm, ok, well, let's see...hold on...

[Clerk goes off to have brief talk with manager, who opens safe and
	draws out a small box.]
Manager [smiling]:  Hi.  Clerk Clark tells me you might be interested
	in out "Nuclear Fallout" model.  It comes with its own safe,
	obtionally imbedded in 3 feet of concrete.  It has been tested
	to withstand pressures in excess of 8000psi, Trident missile
	blasts, heavy radiation, sulfuric acid, and comes with a
	5000 year guarentee.  [in a small voice]  It, however, [nervous
	laugh] isn't geek-proof.

Martha:  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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