Re: Unisys (was Re: Where did GODBOUT Electronics go ?)

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From: Brian Boutel
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00

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river wrote:
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> It was rumoured, that if you ran "Unisys" through Wordstar (or maybe another
> old
> wp) spellcheck it would come up with "anuses". 

That explains something.  I used to think that "The Tower of Poo" was a
Spoonerism for their post-merger adverstising slogan "The Power of Two".

--brian

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