| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
In 410.?, someone mentioned that IBM used to plaster the word "THINK"
all over the place. I was on a few IBM courses last year, and they
gave us cards to write our names on to place on our desks. On
the back of this card was "THINK" in 30 different languages.
Which reminds me of someone who claims to have seen the immortal
word above the sink in an IBM Gents. Below this, someone had added
"THOAP".
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 424.1 | More THINK | TELCOM::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO Telecom | Tue Oct 27 1987 14:54 | 1 |
I heard that some pencilled below the sign, "OR THWIM". | |||||
| 424.2 | Thinking it over | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | Tue Oct 27 1987 18:23 | 9 | |
As a former IBMer (that's what they call themselves) I can confirm
the ubiquity of THINK signs. The founder of IBM, Thomas Watson,
invented the motto in the 1920s or 30s and it is fashionable in
IBM offices for them to be displayed in a variety of languages.
When I worked there, we had signs made in the same type and size
as the THINK signs, printed in the same color ink, that said simply
COPE.
Bernie
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