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Happy Alka Selzer Day!

#1 Post by Bob78164 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:51 am

Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
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Re: Happy Alka Selzer Day!

#2 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:32 am

Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
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Re: Happy Alka Selzer Day!

#3 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:55 am

Bob Juch wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
LOL - I think that is what Bob### meant. Today is the Alka-Seltzer.

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#4 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:04 am

Bob Juch wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
And mine is just starting.
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#5 Post by Chuck E Reese » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:08 am

silverscreenselect wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
And mine is just starting.

What have you done with the real SSS!?!? Bring him back!

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Re: Happy Alka Selzer Day!

#6 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:43 am

silverscreenselect wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
And mine is just starting.
I found and was going to post an online article I found titled "Obama Will be one of Our Greatest Presidents." Then I read the article and couldn't do it -- it demonstrated many of SSS's previously made points about how Obama campaigned so effectively and won the election.

I still think that in four years, SSS will say that Obama did well and that he's glad Obama was elected. Or, if he thinks the four years went well, SSS may give all the credit to the Cabinet and other staff. That will be OK too, because if that happens, it will mean that Obama gets the credit for assmbling that staff.

We'll see. i'll be very happy to hear "Hail to the Chief" being played a little more than an hour away, and it will be a new Chief.
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#7 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:46 am

Don't forget the first full day of the Obama Administration is NATIONAL SQUIRREL APPRECIATION DAY!!!!
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#8 Post by Evil Squirrel » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:46 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Don't forget the first full day of the Obama Administration is NATIONAL SQUIRREL APPRECIATION DAY!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!
Squirrels are the architects of forests, the planters of trees, nature's own acrobats and show a zest for life that can inspire us. Every day should be National Squirrel Appreciation Day!

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Many of these (squirrel) migrations were probably caused by food shortages as well as habitat overcrowding. We solved that for them. We not only reduced their habitat, we reduced the whole species by about 90%. The least we can do now is share a little birdseed with them.

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Re: Happy Alka Selzer Day!

#9 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:52 am

SportsFan68 wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:
Bob Juch wrote: I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
And mine is just starting.
I still think that in four years, SSS will say that Obama did well and that he's glad Obama was elected. Or, if he thinks the four years went well, SSS may give all the credit to the Cabinet and other staff. That will be OK too, because if that happens, it will mean that Obama gets the credit for assmbling that staff.
That has got to be the kindest and sweetest thing I have ever heard said about SSS.

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#10 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:59 am

SportsFan68 wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:
Bob Juch wrote: I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
And mine is just starting.
I found and was going to post an online article I found titled "Obama Will be one of Our Greatest Presidents." Then I read the article and couldn't do it -- it demonstrated many of SSS's previously made points about how Obama campaigned so effectively and won the election.
I've spent over a year working on a marketing text, and I can appreciate the brilliant job that Obama did to win the nomination and the election. It will be studied by political consultants for decades to come.

However, marketing has its limits. It can get people to try a product, but it can't make a product any better or worse. Starting tomorrow, we will get to judge the product rather than the marketing campaign that led us to try the product.
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#11 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:03 am

silverscreenselect wrote: However, marketing has its limits. It can get people to try a product, but it can't make a product any better or worse. Starting tomorrow, we will get to judge the product rather than the marketing campaign that led us to try the product.
I look forward to your 2012 report.

Although, I think we will see SSS's reports much sooner than 2012 on how he thinks the Presidency is going.
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#12 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:10 am

Everybody have a great Inauguration Day!
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#13 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:14 am

SportsFan68 wrote:Everybody have a great Inauguration Day!
We just got an e-mail saying that we'll have lunchtime TV coverage of the inauguration in our conference room. I didn't expect the company to do that! 8)

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#14 Post by christie1111 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:20 am

marketing has its limits. It can get people to try a product, but it can't make a product any better or worse

We keep trying to tell marketing that!
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#15 Post by christie1111 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:20 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Everybody have a great Inauguration Day!
We just got an e-mail saying that we'll have lunchtime TV coverage of the inauguration in our conference room. I didn't expect the company to do that! 8)
We have big flat screens around the building. The cafeteria is going to be crowded today.
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#16 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:33 am

SportsFan68 wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote: However, marketing has its limits. It can get people to try a product, but it can't make a product any better or worse. Starting tomorrow, we will get to judge the product rather than the marketing campaign that led us to try the product.
I look forward to your 2012 report.

Although, I think we will see SSS's reports much sooner than 2012 on how he thinks the Presidency is going.
I take that statement back, partially. When marketing is a key part of the product development process, it can make products "better" by convincing the company to include the features in the product that people want rather than those the engineers think are good things to have. In this sense, marketing can make a product better or worse.

However, marketing can't make a product perform any better or worse.
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#17 Post by Bob78164 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:46 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Later today, we will witness the end of the Bush Administration. Congratulations to President elect Obama. --Bob
I don't need Alka-Seltzer! My headache and heartburn is going away.
LOL - I think that is what Bob### meant. Today is the Alka-Seltzer.
And oh, what a relief it is. Congratulations, President Obama. --Bob
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