[plug] OT: but you have to laugh!

[Leon Brooks]

Subject: MS In a landmark decision, the Australian Commercial Practices Court
yesterday ruled that Toyota is no longer allowed to run its advertising campaign
based on the word "bugger".

Explained Court spokesman Loof Lirpa, ``Some time ago Microsoft took out an
injunction against the use of the word `bugger' in Toyota's ad. It was argued
that `bugger' had been associated with Windows far longer and far more deeply
than with Toyota's utes.''

Lirpa went on to suggest that every Windows user in the world uses the word at
least once a day as a direct result of using Windows. ``No other product has
ever achieved that degree of market recognition and for Toyota to muscle in on
it was clearly a breach of commercial etiquette and, ipso facto, copyright.''
Microsoft is now planning a media-wide campaign using  their catch-word.

A copy that has been leaked to us shows several familiar faces:

   * Stephen King is shown saving the last page of his new 800 page blockbuster
     in Word and then re-opening it to find that it has been reduced to three
     smiley faces and half a dozen Japanese characters. He smiles wanly to the
     camera and says ``......''
   * Kerry Packer is shown shaking his head knowingly and muttering ``......''
     when he discovers that the spreadsheet on which he based his latest $4
     billion takeover has suffered from the notorious Excel `four times seven
     equals thirty six' feature and that the Ayer's Rock Pie Company is somewhat
     overvalued.
   * The head of the CIA [face pixillated] is shown shouting ``oh, ......'' on
     finding that Outlook has just emailed the entire contents of his hard drive
     to the head of the KGB. She, in turn, says,  ``byugyah'' when the file is
     found to be in last year's Access format.

A spokesthing for Microsoft commented, ``This is a logical move for the company
that used  the songs `You make a grown man cry' and `The damned and accursed are
committed to the flames of Hell' as advertising slogans for its software. We
anticipate establishing the slogan in the marketplace by including a t-shirt
with `Microsoft. Bugger.' in every box of our software.''
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