To Gilley: "Love/Hate" >Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:18:09 -0700 (PDT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:17:14 +0000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: A New BNSF Game: Rob's Name the Shame '97 >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/1733 >X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >CUNY-And you thought you couldn't do good work at 3 AM? > >__________________________________________ >A NEW BNSF GAME: ROB KREB'S NAME THE SHAME [1997 VERSION] > >Grinstein Green got you down? Vommit Bonnet not do it for you? Up-market >Eddie Bauer's un-affordable on your paint budget? Pumpkins wearing on >your eyes? Rainbow Warrior hard on your ears? > >WELL SAY NO MORE! > >BNSF's illustrious marketing department (The sons of the creators of the >Edsel, the daughters of the creators of Miller Beer's 'Laugh so hard >your MGD flies out your nose' billboards, and the award-winning design >team behind the Pacer and the Gremlin) now brings you -- BNSF 740 -- the >most hideous rolling monstrosity since the elephant man tried to roller >skate! > >And you can name this shame! Simply write down the most naive, >uninspired, insulting title you can think of and send it to >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For example: > >'Bobmobile' ['Robmobile' may be substituted] >'Texas Trash' >'Hey It's Ugly' >'Technicolor Yawn' >'Rob's Discount House of Paint' >'UGRE' ['Ugly Gross Railroad Engine'] >'Hey Baby Wanna Lift In My Hot Ride?' [Why not? The damn thing is >tasteless anyway] >'Ah, So You Had A Lot Of Sh###y Paint Left Over From The Merger Party, >Some Santa Fe Scotchlite, And A Couple Of Drunken Marketing Executives' > >Or my personal favorites: > >PUKIN'! > >WRETCHED WARRIOR! > >Just write down your submission (only one per person please) and send it >to BNSF -- remember to include ''C/O Rob's Name The Shame Game '97'' in >your subject line -- You'll be glad you did! > >First Prize: BNSF may think up yet another atrocious scheme. >Second Prize: An all expense paid trip to wherever you are now. > >(Sorry: BNSF employees are not allowed to play unless they are currently >working for the Marketing or Publicity Departments) > >(Small Print: No prizes are actually available. BNSF's marketing >personnel will probably keep their jobs. BNSF is unlikely to acquire an >attractive paint scheme. This whole damn note has just been a parody >advertisement designed to humiliate several people from Lou Menk Drive >and get them sacked, which as I've said, isn't likely happen, just like >844's excursion run on the Maui Sugarcane Express. Oh well, I can dream >can't I?) > >(Signature File: removed due to several explicit lines about how BNSF's >predecessors weren't so cheap that they wouldn't hire a REAL industrial >designer [Raymond Loewy comes to mind]) >
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