jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) (02/18/91)
Last night on Saturday Night Live they played a commercial featuring three boys. One was showing the other two all the things he did on his computer. "You drew this monster eating the army guy on *your* computer?" asked one. "This is the best explosion I ever saw," said the other, pointing to a very graphic mushroom cloud. Before fading to black, one kid says, "We must be stupid." The other looks directly into the camera and says, "No, we're not stupid. Our Dad's just bought us a crummy computer." Fade to black, with stylized apple logo, and messy bite from said logo. "MacIntosh Jr. The power to crush the other kids." --- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | D. Joseph Creighton | "We are all faced with a series | | <jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca> | of great opportunities brilliantly | | U of M Computer Services | disguised as impossible situations." | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo) (02/18/91)
The funny thing about that SNL commercial was that it actually happens. Both my brother and I used to go to school with *ultra* glossy laser-printed reports, complete with postscript graphics/page-layout, and everything, and basically blew anything done with pencil and lined paper away :-) Even when it wasn't laser printed, it was using neat fonts and more. Just after the Mac appeared, in my sixth grade class we had a project to "write and publish a book"--so everyone handed in standard pen or typed, 8 1/2" x 11" pages stapled together with a cover, or possibly a neat sewed-cloth cover their mother did for them. A few handed in the "very impressive" PC 9-pin dot matrix reports--but I handed in a 4.5"x5.5", typeset in New York landscape double sided booklet, complete with graphics done in MacPaint :-) Now, my little brother occasionally is assigned the new fad in school--making a video project, and he uses a Mac we have access to to title and direct-output animation to VHS. Isn't the Mac fun? By the way, does anyone happen to have videotaped that SNL commercial? Benjamin Kuo
231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) (02/18/91)
I saw that bit too, got a good laugh from it. I wonder if Lorne Michaels will be getting a letter from Apple's legal department... I also liked the nice color output the kid had. It's like his daddy bought him a MacIntosh Jr with a $20,000 color laser printer... _mike