Hi Billy,

On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> OK, OK, you Would Say That.
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> But, por favor, try and consider my objective as a copy editor,
> to compose a catchy headline that most of the hoi polloi would "get"
> without effort.
>  
> The headline is catchy.
>  
> Matthew,  Mark, Luke, John , and  Apple
> and you get confusion ( except in Silicon Valley )
> People do eat apples, you know, not just plug them in.
>  
> Maybe I could have said Matthew , Mark, Luke, John and  Godaddy
> but that would have caused problems of its own.
>  
> I settled on Microsoft because, despite all the sterling qualities of Apple,
> most people use MS equipment and identify the cyberword to large extent
> with the empire of Bill Gates.

The trendier equivalent would be:

* Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Google?

OR

* Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Facebook?

Though I concede that Microsoft gives you better alliteration.

-- Ernie P.


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> Billy
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> In a message dated 1/25/2010 10:24:36 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> [email protected] writes:
> > Matthew, Mark, Luke, John , and  Microsoft ?
> 
> 
> Actually, blogging and social media is one area where Microsoft seems almost 
> completely absent.  Even Facebook appears to be phasing them out.
> 
> -- Ernie P.
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> On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > nce on the Web has heavily grown in recent years, urged priests on Saturday 
> > to use all multimedia tools at their disposal to preach the Gospel and 
> > engage in dialogue with people of other religions and cultures.
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