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Re: History--customer service training film--party lines

From	"hgww" <hgww@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: History--customer service training film--party lines
Date	2016-02-15 07:28 +1100
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"JimP" <solosam90@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:30:23 +1100, "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>><hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
>>news:0af5db9e-d955-42be-bc59-b0e747d21103@googlegroups.com...
>>> On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 12:00:24 AM UTC-5, Michael Black wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On the other hand, since the copies still exist, one can get a feel for
>>>> things by looking at the ads.  At least about taking a ship (or later 
>>>> Pan
>>>> Am) to somewhere exotic, with your Zenith portable radio, and of course
>>>> all those ads for military academies for the boys.  And all those 
>>>> classic
>>>> Coca Cola ads.
>>>
>>> Yes, the steamship ads for international tourism travel were 
>>> interesting.
>>> Also, the railroads and bus lines had nice ads.
>>>
>>> I didn't like the military academy ads.  I knew a kid who went to one.
>>> While he liked it, we visited him out there and life seemed like boot
>>> camp.  Indeed, his younger brother went too, and they remained long time
>>> friends with some of the teachers.
>>>
>>> I stand corrected about one thing you mentioned.  I had a co-worker who
>>> collected Coke stuff and I gave him the Coke ads from my copies.  As an
>>> aside, Coke had a massive advertising campaign--there are zillions of 
>>> old
>>> print ads.  Indeed, the company was pretty shrewd, they enticed a huge
>>> market of people to buy their flavored water.
>>>
>>> obcomp:  An IBM woman VP wrote a memoir, and in it she talked about her
>>> first post in Atlanta, HQ of Coke.  Everyone drank it there.
>>>
>>> P.S.  One book on the company says the "secret formula" is nonsense.
>>> Both Coke and Pepsi know full well all the formulas. I think I mentioned
>>> I once did a simple taste test with friends between Coke and Pepsi, and
>>> no one could tell the difference.
>>
>>I certainly could when I was a teenager.
>
> I can still tell the difference.

I don't drink them anymore so I have no idea about that.

Pepsi uses more high fructose sugar
> than Coke Cola.

Neither of them did when I was a teenager, more than 50 years ago now.

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History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 10:13 -0800
  Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 13:29 -0600
    Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-02-13 17:09 -0400
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:23 -0800
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-14 15:50 -0500
        Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:27 -0800
          Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-15 09:45 +0000
    Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:20 -0800
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:33 -0800
  Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:02 -0800
    Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:28 -0800
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 18:13 -0800
    Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:29 -0800
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-14 00:53 +0000
    Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 19:03 -0600
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 21:30 -0500
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-13 21:40 -0500
        Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 19:30 -0800
          Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 22:33 -0600
            Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-14 00:24 -0500
              Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 12:57 -0600
          Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-14 00:05 -0500
            Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 21:21 -0800
              Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 17:30 +1100
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 02:33 -0500
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 13:00 -0600
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 07:28 +1100
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-14 20:14 +0100
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 16:33 -0600
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:23 -0800
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines mausg@mail.com - 2016-02-15 10:45 +0000
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-15 12:48 +0000
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 05:11 +1100
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-16 18:52 -0700
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-18 11:37 -0600
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 20:57 -0800
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 21:11 -0800
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 21:15 -0800
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-19 01:04 -0600
                Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 04:26 +1100
      Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 18:39 -0800
        Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 22:15 -0600
        Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-02-14 07:32 -0500
          Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-14 07:13 -0600
          Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:21 -0800

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