Hilarious, John. Thanks! On 10/26/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently Pentax have taken note of Tom C's pleas: > > "There was a tiny knock at the door, almost inaudible. The Great > Panjandrum, the Mikado of Pentax, frowned. "Come in", he barked. > > The door opened a fraction, and a small, pale, man crept timidly in. He > had the appearance of a troglodyte, and blinked in the bright light of the > Mikado's office. > > "Good morning, Your Highness", he quaked. The Mikado looked disdainfully > at the pathetic creature. "Well, who are you, and what do you want?", he > barked. > > "I am Bento, your Lordship, from Marketing..." > > "Marketing, I thought I'd closed Marketing years ago", interrupted the > Mikado. > > "Yes, you did, Sir, after you sentenced me to death for suggesting that we > drop support for old K lenses. But then you thought that wasn't enough, > and instructed me to read all the posts on the PDML for three years > instead. Three years is now up." Bento stopped, and waited in trepidation. > > "Ah, yes", said the Mikado, " I remember now." He chuckled. "So you > survived, eh? Good for you, I wouldn't have done. Such rubbish, and they > do go on and on." He paused, "...and on!". > > Emboldened by the Mikado's obvious good humour, Bento ventured: "Yes, Sir, > and there's one of them who made 14,564 posts on the same subject, and all > of them were exactly the same, Your Majesty". > > The Mikado pondered, feeling slightly guilty. Perhaps he had been too > harsh on Bento. Death would surely have been much kinder. > > Finally the great man spoke. "14,564 identical posts, eh? What was he > saying?" he asked, and hurriedly added: "Just tell me once". > > "He said that he wanted Pentax to produce a full-frame SLR, with faster > AF, and that he thought Pentax wasn't competing with Canon, and had no > strategy". Bento stopped fearfully, afraid he'd said too much. > > "No strategy?" the Mikado roared. "He makes 14 thousand posts saying we > have no strategy? I'll show the lunatic a strategy". He yanked an > ancestral Samurai sword from the wall in fury, and hurled it at Bento, > scalping him neatly. > > "Get Samsung on the line. Cancel the full-frame chip. Call Nguyen. Tell > him to shut down the lens factory. We'll buy fixed-focus lenses from > Holga, they should be fast enough for him. We'll produce the worst bloody > camera in creation. Then let him dare to say we don't compete with > Canon!". > > > > John > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > >
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