----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett@alum.mit.edu>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 6:51 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Re: Contesting
> DJ0IP wrote:
> >This thread has degenerated all the way down to "Joe HT" and I haven't a
> clue who or what Joe HT is. Normally, for better or for worse, everything
> originating in the states [eventually] makes it over here in Europe.
Either
> this Joe guy is still crossing the Atlantic or else I've missed something.
>
> Oops...I coined that term intending it as a play on "Joe
Six-Pack"
> (J6P)
> which is often used in the advertising community to describe the average
male
> TV audience. As long as we don't "export" our politically-correct
feel-good
> educational system in which "everyone is above average" (Garrison
Keillor's
> Lake Wobegone), you have nothing to fear in Europe. Thank goodness for
all the
> bright immigrants that continue to be attracted to this country. My 97
year
> old mother just saw an ER MD yesterday who emigrated from Ghana.
Unfortunately
> their motivation only lasts about one generation before we completely
corrupt
> their kids in our educational system.
>
> Joe HT will believe anything the advertisers tell him.
Unfortunately
> most advertisers do not tell the truth and Joe is left believing his
> "astonishing
> ultimate unparalleled Masterpiece" is actually worth $11,000 when it is
> actually
> just another mediocre performer in a long series of the same, albeit with
gobs
> of flash, whistles and bells...but that's what appeals to Joe. Sad.
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
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