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[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 6/27/2002 6:21:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> This reminds me of an ad I saw in my college newspaper a few months 
> ago for the Toyota Celica.  One of the features it touted was "direct 
> ignition" which, if my memory serves me correctly, was introduced by 
> Bosch in 1898 and became the standard almost immediately, being in 
> place on *every* gas-powered car made today.
> 

There is a famous story about PT Barnum.

He had a sideshow attraction in CT and wanted to make people keep moving 
through at a good clip, because his $ was based on customer throughput.  So 
he hung up a sign:

THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS

And people flocked through the door to see it!

Charlie
LA, CA, USA
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