Re: [APD] Typing style & other such things!!!

["John T. Fitch" <JTFitch at FitchFamily_com>]

On: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:36:49 -0700 (PDT)
"S. Hieber" shieber at yahoo_com wrote:
Re: [APD] Typing style & other such things!!!

>> -- Western Uinon sused to use the fill word "stop" a full 4 cahracters 
>> but they didn't charge for it.

As a child, I remember my father telling me the perhaps apocryphal story of 
the business magnate who was interested in aquiring a smaller company.  When 
his agent reported the asking price, the magnate wanted to respond, "No. 
Price too high."  But, telegrams were in all capital letters, without 
punctuation, so the agent received, "NO PRICE TOO HIGH"  and promptly 
accepted the offer.  The businessman should have, of course, sent, "NO STOP 
PRICE TOO HIGH".

My wife's father was away on a trip on her tenth birthday, so he sent her a 
telegram. The standard telegram was only ten words long, so it behooved you 
to write concisely if at all possible.  So, he wrote "ONE TWO THREE FOUR 
FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN".

Please excuse the digression from plants.  It's summertime.

John T. Fitch
www.fitchfamily.com/aquarium.html

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