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Conference back40::soapbox

Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
Notice:No more new notes
Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUEONS
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:862
Total number of notes:339684

592.0. "What is a consumer" by POLAR::WILSONC (born to agitate) Sun Nov 19 1995 00:47

    Consumers are: General purpose symbol manipulators.
    
    According to advertising pyschologists.
    
    Any better ideas?
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592.1oopsie daisyPOLAR::WILSONCborn to agitateSun Nov 19 1995 00:512
    -1. psychology <:*)=[ ]<
    
592.2A sheep...SOLVIT::KRAWIECKIif u cn rd ths, u nd to gt a lyfSun Nov 19 1995 15:201
    
592.3TOOK::GASKELLMon Nov 20 1995 11:5814
    What is a consumer? 
    
    1.  A group of people who keep the economy moving by purchasing
        merchandise of questionable usefulness from places like Sears, and 
        the home shopping clubs.  
    
    2.  Rich people who purchase merchandise of questionable usefulness from 
        places like London, New York, and Paris.
    
    3.  Me, when I have the money.
    
    4.  Desperate people, two days before Christmas.
        
        
592.4POWDML::HANGGELILittle Chamber of Wet RaspberriesMon Nov 20 1995 12:147
    
    >> 4.  Desperate people, two days before Christmas.
    
    These are probably the same people who are too busy taking long lunches
    and coffee breaks to do their shopping on time.
    
    
592.5Hey, I resemble that remark...GAAS::BRAUCHERWelcome to ParadiseMon Nov 20 1995 12:367
    
      braucher : consumer, from the German verb "zu brauchen", to
     need, to consume.
    
      braucher, brauche, brauchte, gebraucht
    
      bb
592.6DASHER::RALSTONscrewiti'mgoinhome..Mon Nov 20 1995 13:121
    The most important person an economy has.
592.7MKOTS3::RAUHI survived the Cruel SpaMon Nov 20 1995 15:224
    A slave to credit cards, a victum of fraud, a lover of the good things.
    And a weary one for the wear around the holidays.:)
    
    
592.8TOOK::GASKELLMon Nov 20 1995 16:2711
    .4  I know you didn't mean it seriously but, actually, you're right!   
    
    
    	And by the way, Just to keep the record straight it's .3
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    >> 4.  Desperate people, two days before Christmas.
    
    
592.9KERNEL::PLANTCA Vodka Martini, Shaken not stirred.Tue Nov 21 1995 15:0115
    
    
>>      braucher : consumer, from the German verb "zu brauchen", to
>>     need, to consume.
    
>>      braucher, brauche, brauchte, gebraucht
    
>>      bb
    
    
    hehehehehehe good one!!
    
    Chris
    :)
    
592.10I need, therefore I am...ASDG::HORTONpaving the info highwayFri Dec 01 1995 19:546
    Re .5:
    
    Does that mean you're "needy?"
    
    -Jerry