Dan_Jacobson@att.com (06/19/91)
Regarding Northern Telecom History; TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) adds: > (I can't resist an aside on the Simcoe Street building. This > was built in the early 1970s, and is a very tall, modern looking > building *with no windows* right in the middle of downtown. If > Tony> I am conducting out-of-country visitors around town, I often > contrive to pass by the building and say in an off-hand manner: > "that's the headquarters of the Secret Police". The building > looks forbidding enough that it sometimes works with gullible > visitors.) For added kicks, take them past your TV set late at night. If they are not English speakers, then they probably would get the impression that often those "talk to the girl of your dreams" 1-900 phone advertisements are apparently for prostitution. Certainly this "fool the foreigner" theme must have already been used in a Saturday Night Live type TV show skit already. Also, I noticed "Member of NAIS" (or was it NIAS?) flashed on the screen during one of these ads here in Chicagoland. Perhaps another Telecom correspondent can fill us in on this organization. [Replies: to the Digest.]