Paul Stimpson wrote: > "Is it legal?"
>
> Whispers, "Shhh! Just don't tell Bill!"
>
> Or...
>
> Two people outside an office with "Bill" on the door. One of then has a disc case with Tux and "Linux" on it.
>
> "Is it legal?"
>
> "Yes"
>
> "Does it really work?"
>
> "Yes"
>
> "Is it quicker than ours?"
>
> "Fraid so""
>
> "How about viruses?"
>
> "None"
>
> "There can't be any programs for it"
>
> "Thousands"
>
> "Hard to use?"
>
> "Not any more..."
>
> "Bet it's expensive"
>
> "Free"
>
> "You tell him"
>
> "No, you tell him"
>
> (They all push the disc at each other then look at each other. One grabs the large pot plant by the door out of its pot,
> The other throws the disc in then they ram the plant back in and sneak off.)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr Adam Trickett <adam.trickett@???>
>
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:16:07
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008, Alan Bell wrote:
>
>> Alan Pope wrote:
>> <snip rambling>
>>
>>
>>> We should be looking at ways of promoting what we have, our advantages
>>> over the competition, our strengths, not kick off knee-jerk copy-cat
>>> reactionary marketing. The public see through that very quickly. Take
>>> the appalling Novel "I'm Linux" adverts as a prime example of how
>>> _not_ to do it.
>>>
>> as luck would have it we are working on a marketing campaign right now,
>> it is far too early to share it with anyone, but I will anyway (just
>> don't blog it yet). Basically what we are saying is that there is loads
>> of great Free software out there, but it is a secret - don't tell Bill.
>> Kind of like the "don't tell Sid" thing that was used when Thatcher sold
>> our gas. We can use this theme to talk about all sorts of Free software
>> and of course the services that are available to help people take
>> advantage of it. Here http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/Postcards.pdf >> is some sample artwork for postcards we could send to small businesses
>> (but I think we prefer the full colour version) let me know what you
>> think. Obviously the stuff we do will have an Open Learning Centre theme
>> to it, but there is no reason why anyone else couldn't do their own
>> "don't tell Bill" marketing.
>>
>
> I like it, it's quite amusing and gets the point across. Here is something you
> can legally save money with but don't tell anyone or everyone will know how
> to save money... The people who know who Bill is will think it's funny
> everyone else will get the idea that they are supposed to tell everyone
> really.
>
> It reminds me of http://browsehappy.com/ which seems to have gone silent - I
> hope you are able to maintain some momentum.
>
> Good luck with the campaign.
>
>
