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Subject:Re: Fun fact From:"Schweizer, Alex" <alexs -at- VISTEON -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:40:03 -0400
Yes, but did the tech writers win?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huber, Mike [SMTP:mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Fun fact
>
> I don't get blank stares, I get "so those $%* books are YOUR FAULT!
> No, I'm
> sure yours are clear and easy to read, not like the ones that come
> with VCRs
> (you don't do VCR manuals, do you?) ..."
>
> ---
> Office:
> mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
> Home:
> nax -at- execpc -dot- com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D. Margulis [SMTP:ampersandvirgule -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET]
> > Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 6:54 PM
> > To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> > Subject: Fun fact
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Tonight is the second time in a week I've seen a Jeopardy!
> contestant
> > introduced as a technical writer.
> >
> > Does this mean fewer people will give us blank stares when we tell
> them
> > what we do for a living? Probably not.
> >
> > But if you see a Jeopardy! contestant in your office tomorrow, say
> hello
> > for all us techwrlers.
> >
