Dear Jim: LOL, in fact, LOLQAB Susan %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###########################^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*())) At 10:20 AM 8/21/97 -0400, Jim Bryant wrote: >My Dear Susan; >Strictly in the interest of furthering your internet education...you >understand. >PSO is understood as piano shaped object of course, as has been stated by you >and others. However the roots of 'POS' are somewhat muddled along with 'PP', > 'SIB' and 'DBM'. None of these ac's have a universal menaing however and >they have been changed to mean many things, some more appropiate than others. > > As a case in point let us look at 'POS'......This term was brought into >wide use by management marketing departments in the mid 1960s and developed >to its full potential by companies such as Aeolian. Because of the realtive >success of Aeolian in the use of this term other companies began to follow >suit and soon the market was flooded with items for 'POS' disposal. This >construct became so popular that the American manufactering base is >approxiamtely 1/5 th of what it was at the beggining of the use of said >terminology. > Now my Dear Susan let me make it perfectly clear that I am speaking of the >original 'POS' as developed by the Manufacturers Association and not as >interpreted by some of the wags on the internet, however well meaning they >might be. :-) > You see my Dear, 'POS' really means "point of sale" and not what some >others have suggested, although the terms as put forth surely do apply, in >some cases, you must realize that these persons have an identified >agenda.....that being that they did not approve of the "POS' items' that were >really 'POS' and did nothing to enhance 'POS' enrichment' at the "POS'. > I hope, My Dear, that I have cleared up any samll confusion in your mind on >this subject. >Jim Bryant (FL) > **************((((((((((((((((___&&&&&&&&_____))))))))))))@@@@@@@@@@@@++++++++++ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "When all other means of communication fail, try words." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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