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Subject:Re: Make It Pretty From:Michael LaTorra <mikel -at- HUEY -dot- ACCUGRAPH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 17 Nov 1994 11:08:41 MST
Debbie Molinaro wrote (in part):
>There's a fellow in my chain of command who refers to our work
>(Technical Publications Department) as "making it pretty."
. . .
>I need some perspective here from fellow professionals. I'd also like a
>clever one-liner to quip back.
Debbie, I think most of us on this list can empathize with your situation.
Here is what I would say to fellows like your "pretty" boy:
"Pretty is only skin deep; we make it RIGHT."
Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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and not necessarily those of my ][ are still superstitions -- and they
company -- but they probably ][ have a lot of them. The real ques-
should be. ][ tion is why we keep listening to
][ them after their nostrums have
][ failed time and time again."
][ -- Thomas Sowell
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