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Subject:Re: More Win95 humor! From:Valerie Archambeau <varchamb -at- MIDWAY -dot- UCHICAGO -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 24 Oct 1995 10:01:28 -0500
At 3:27 AM 10/23/95, Geoff Hart wrote:
> <ROFL!> Just read in the weekend paper that after buying
> the rights to the anthem "Start me up" from Mick Jagger et
> al., Bill Gates ordered the words "you make a grown man
> cry" removed from all copies of the lyrics. Oh, would that
> it were so! Though I must admit, this damages the
> appropriateness of the lyrics for the product they promote.
> --Geoff Hart = -at- 8^{)}
Whenever I see this commercial, this is *exactly* what comes to mind.
Windows 95: You make a grown man cry.
You'd think the ad execs would have considered the connotations of using a
song with such well-known lyrics as that.
