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onyxhawke ([personal profile] onyxhawke) wrote2009-02-13 01:51 pm

Does your book sound like this?





If so, revising may be a good idea.

Thank you Darius.

[identity profile] metafrantic.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator" should only be said in the voice of Marvin the Martian.

[identity profile] onyxhawke.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

I don't know, that guy who used to do all those movie commercials might be able to pull it off. Or Yoda, and Samuel L Jackson, those two can do no wrong.

[identity profile] metafrantic.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoda?

"Here now, the future is, with the Rockwell Automation Retr- the Rockwell Auto-

"Oh hell. What shit is this, paying me to hawk, you are?"

[identity profile] metafrantic.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...uh, of course, that should say "...paying me to hock..."

*headdesk*

Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator

[identity profile] bigbananaslug.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the senior PR people at RA don't know whether to sh*t or fly when somebody pulls this oldie-but-goodie off YouTube and shows it at a conference. I was tempted to when I keynoted the Rockwell Automation Pulp and Paper User Group on Monday, but I chickened out.

Re: Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator

[identity profile] onyxhawke.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Being the SOB that I am, i'd have used it to launch a perfectly sober speech, but then I am a SOB. :-)

[identity profile] cedunkley.livejournal.com 2009-02-14 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
That is priceless.