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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/

According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
Zealand"...
Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.

And here's the obligatory "Why not get it free?" reference...
http://www.openoffice.org/

Even better...
http://www.theopencd.org/

That's for real and not all that old. It was in this week's Otago
student newspaper (Critic)

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:52:53 -0800, Howard1309 wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/
>
To me this shows two people who should be getting it on but are not with
MS being the cause.

Still then again MS is not one of the partners

T'was the 2 Mar 2006 13:52:53 -0800 when I remembered "Howard1309"
<> saying something like this:

>According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
>Zealand"...
>Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.

It only ran for a very short amount of time at a certain university,
suffice to say, I have a copy of the poster in my room. It'll be worth
a lot on eBay one day
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.
See my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/WaylonKenning/

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:36:24 -0800, someone purporting to be david winter
didst scrawl:

> That's for real and not all that old. It was in this week's Otago
> student newspaper (Critic)

And here was I thinking it actually was old, and a reference to an
incident several years ago where a female UoA (or maybe AIT?) student
posted on usenet offering "favours" in return for assistance with a
programming assignment.

--
Matthew Poole
"Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."

On 2 Mar 2006 13:52:53 -0800, Howard1309 wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/
>
> According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
> Zealand"...
> Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.
>
> And here's the obligatory "Why not get it free?" reference...
> http://www.openoffice.org/
>
> Even better...
> http://www.theopencd.org/

Didn't look out of place on a student mag.
However, that's alot of beer you could buy. So just use OpenOffice
instead.....

On 2 Mar 2006 13:52:53 -0800, "Howard1309" <> wrote:

>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/
>
>According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
>Zealand"...
>Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.

What we should be doing is complaining about The Register's reference to New
Zealand.

....Begin Quote...
There was a time when Microsoft ads were a bit more entertaining than the
current "dinosaur head" offerings which have of late been baffling adults and
scaring small children worldwide.

The proof comes in this hitherto-unseen-in-the-civilised-world shocker for MS
Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003:

[picture of add]

Fantastic. For the record, an MS operative confirmed this morning that this is
"an old advertisement which ran only in New Zealand for a short period and is no
longer being used". For the love of all that's Holy, why not?
....End Quote...

According to them we don't live in the civilised world. I know Roger was a big
fan of The Register, perhaps he was bugging them a lot and they got the wrong
idea about us. We should let them know he's one of theirs!

Craig Shore wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2006 13:52:53 -0800, "Howard1309" <> wrote:
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/
>>
>> According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
>> Zealand"...
>> Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.
>
> What we should be doing is complaining about The Register's reference to New
> Zealand.
>
> ...Begin Quote...
> There was a time when Microsoft ads were a bit more entertaining than the
> current "dinosaur head" offerings which have of late been baffling adults and
> scaring small children worldwide.
>
> The proof comes in this hitherto-unseen-in-the-civilised-world shocker for MS
> Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003:
>
> [picture of add]
>
> Fantastic. For the record, an MS operative confirmed this morning that this is
> "an old advertisement which ran only in New Zealand for a short period and is no
> longer being used". For the love of all that's Holy, why not?
> ...End Quote...
>
> According to them we don't live in the civilised world. I know Roger was a big
> fan of The Register, perhaps he was bugging them a lot and they got the wrong
> idea about us. We should let them know he's one of theirs!
>
>
>

And the BOFH is one of ours

In article < .com>,
"Howard1309" <> wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_nz_ad/
>
> According to the link it's "an old advertisement which ran only in New
> Zealand"...
> Anybody ever seen it? I suspect it's a complete fake, but a funny one.

It's not a fake and it's not old; it was in Critic (Otago University's
student magazine) a couple of weeks ago.

Miche

--
WWMVD?

T'was the Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:47:58 +1300 when I remembered Miche
<> saying something like this:

>It's not a fake and it's not old; it was in Critic (Otago University's
>student magazine) a couple of weeks ago.

It's real. I have two copies of the poster, before they were taken
down. One day they'll be Ebay material
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.
See my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/WaylonKenning/