COMPUTE anger
01-Mar-92 00:39:23
Sb: #50912-COMPUTE anger
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Steven Mussey 71241,1124
Hmm. Do you get Radio-Electronics magazine? Each April, they slip in
several (sometimes subtle, sometimes not) joke articles and letters.
It's part of April Fool's fun both to find them, and to watch the reaction
from new readers' letters the following month 🙂
I'd say that since you figured out the joke, then others will as well. If
nothing else, it seems like a great commentary on how people jump at
Commodore rumors all the time… and a great warning to think about what
you're reading, while you're reading it.
Upshot: If they'd done it in any other month than April, I think everyone
would agree it was in bad taste. But April is special…. <grin>… almost
all magazines pull stunts for that month. I'd worry a lot more if fellow
owners felt that such jokes were "dangerous"; THEN the machine is in
trouble.
cheers – kev