gsk%khaki.asd.sgi.com@sgi.com (George S. Kong) (12/18/90)
AT&T announced on Sunday that they offered six billion dollars to buy the NCR corporation. Today, it was announced that the purpose of this action was to acquire rights to NCR's trademark on the word "Tower". An AT&T spokesperson said, "We haven't done so well on the desktop market, but our under- and beside-the-desk system sales have been good. We think that using the word 'Tower' in our products will differentiate us from our competitors. Also, we feel there's a great deal of compatibility between our two companies' strengths. They've got the trademark, and we've got the lawyers." The spokesperson also said that NCR's corporate culture will not be disturbed. "Our feeling is, 'when in Rolm, do as the Romans did.'" For example, in order not to disturb the community around NCR's headquarters, AT&T has promised to move the entire city of Dayton, Ohio, to New Jersey. When asked if AT&T would continue to employ all of the employees of its Computer Systems division as well as NCR, the spokesperson replied, "Yeah, right." ======================================================================== DISCLAIMER: the preceeding is a joke. it does not reflect the official position of any individual or organization. i didn't even write it; it was sent to me by someone who wanted to remain anonymous. ======================================================================== -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Please! No copyrighted stuff. Also no "mouse balls," dyslexic agnostics, Iraqi driver's ed, Administratium, strings in bar or bell-ringer jokes.