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RE: I can't imagine where this portrayal came from...
Subject:RE: I can't imagine where this portrayal came from... From:Bill Burns <bill_burns -at- lionbridge -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:43:56 -0500
Hi, Mark.
> Sean writes that he's proud to have Tina representing us in
> the Dilbert strip because "she is at least shown as component
> at her job," but I fear that she is not. If I recall correctly,
> in one of her first appearances, she speaks in misprints,
> saying for example "fetid cheese" instead of "feta cheese."
>
Ah, but that's the strip that touched off the debate, and it actually wasn't
Tina the brittle tech writer, but Alice the engineer.
Bill Burns
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