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  • 13-07-2000 11:55am
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    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This was allegedly posted very briefly on the McDonnell Douglas Website by an employee there who obviously has a sense of humour. The company, of course, does not have a sense of humour, and made the web department take
    it down immediately (for once, the 'IMPORTANT' note at the end
    is worth
    a
    read too...).

    Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft.
    In
    order
    to
    protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill
    out the
    warranty registration card below. Answering the survey questions
    is not required, but the information will help us to develop new
    products that best meet your needs and desires.

    1.

    [_] Mr.
    [_] Mrs.
    [_] Ms.
    [_] Miss
    [_] Lt.
    [_] Gen.
    [_] Comrade
    [_] Classified
    [_] Other

    First Name:
    .....................................................
    Initial: ........
    Last Name......................................................
    Password: .............................. (max. 8 char)
    Code Name:
    ......................................................
    Latitude-Longitude-Altitude: ........... ...........

    2. Which model aircraft did you purchase?

    [_] F-14 Tomcat
    [_] F-15 Eagle
    [_] F-16 Falcon
    [_] F-117A Stealth
    [_] F/A-18 Hornet
    [_] Classified

    3. Date of purchase (Year/Month/Day): 19....... /....... /......


    4. Serial Number:
    ...............................................

    5. Please indicate where this product was purchased:

    [_] Received as gift / aid package
    [_] Catalogue / showroom
    [_] Independent arms broker
    [_] Mail order
    [_] Discount store
    [_] Government surplus
    [_] Classified

    6. Please indicate how you became aware of the McDonnell Douglas

    product
    you have just purchased:

    [_] Heard loud noise, looked up
    [_] Store display
    [_] Espionage
    [_] Recommended by friend / relative / ally
    [_] Political lobbying by manufacturer
    [_] Was attacked by one

    7. Please indicate the three (3) factors that most influenced
    your
    decision
    to purchase this McDonnell Douglas product:

    [_] Style / appearance
    [_] Speed / manoeuvrability
    [_] Price / value
    [_] Comfort / convenience
    [_] Kickback / bribe
    [_] Recommended by salesperson
    [_] McDonnell Douglas reputation
    [_] Advanced Weapons Systems
    [_] Backroom politics
    [_] Negative experience opposing one in combat

    8. Please indicate the location(s) where this product will be
    used:

    [_] North America
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Aircraft carrier
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Europe
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Middle East (not Iraq)
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Africa
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Asia / Far East
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Misc. Third World countries
    [_] Iraq
    [_] Classified
    [_] Iraq

    9. Please indicate the products that you currently own or intend
    to
    purchase in the near future:

    [_] Colour TV
    [_] VCR
    [_] ICBM
    [_] Killer Satellite
    [_] CD Player
    [_] Air-to-Air Missiles
    [_] Space Shuttle
    [_] Home Computer
    [_] Nuclear Weapon

    10. How would you describe yourself or your organisation?
    (Indicate all
    that apply smile.gif

    [_] Communist / Socialist
    [_] Terrorist
    [_] Crazed
    [_] Neutral
    [_] Democratic
    [_] Dictatorship
    [_] Corrupt
    [_] Primitive / Tribal

    11. How did you pay for your McDonnell Douglas product?

    [_] Deficit spending
    [_] Cash
    [_] Suitcases of cocaine
    [_] Oil revenues
    [_] Personal cheque
    [_] Credit card
    [_] Ransom money
    [_] Traveller's cheque

    12. Your occupation:

    [_] Homemaker
    [_] Sales / marketing
    [_] Revolutionary
    [_] Clerical
    [_] Mercenary
    [_] Tyrant
    [_] Middle management
    [_] Eccentric billionaire
    [_] Defence Minister / General
    [_] Retired
    [_] Student

    13. To help us better understand our customers, please indicate
    the
    interests and activities in which you and your spouse enjoy
    participating
    on a regular basis:

    [_] Golf
    [_] Boating / sailing
    [_] Sabotage
    [_] Running / jogging
    [_] Propaganda / misinformation
    [_] Destabilisation / overthrow
    [_] Default on loans
    [_] Gardening
    [_] Crafts
    [_] Black market / smuggling
    [_] Collectibles / collections
    [_] Watching sports on TV
    [_] Wines
    [_] Interrogation / torture
    [_] Household pets
    [_] Crushing rebellions
    [_] Espionage / reconnaissance
    [_] Fashion clothing
    [_] Border disputes
    [_] Mutually Assured Destruction

    Thank you for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire.
    Your answers
    will be used in market studies that will help McDonnell Douglas
    serve you better in the future - as well as allowing you to receive
    mailings and special offers from other companies, governments, extremist
    groups, and mysterious consortia. As a bonus for responding to this survey,
    you will be registered to win a brand new F-117A in our Desert Thunder
    Sweepstakes!

    Comments or suggestions about our fighter planes? Please write
    to:
    McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION Marketing Department Military,
    Aerospace
    Division

    IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual
    addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is
    confidential
    privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low
    self-esteem,
    no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are
    not the
    intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying
    of this
    email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and
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    has been
    used in its correct context somewhere other than in this
    warning, it
    does
    not
    have any legal or grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals
    were
    harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie
    next door
    is
    living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an
    overwhelming
    fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no
    hidden
    message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just
    ignore that
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    salt
    around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm
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    error,
    please
    add some nutmeg and egg whites and place it in a warm oven for
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    minutes.
    Whisk briefly and let it stand for 2 hours before icing.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    Excelent ... i needed that !!!

    ***** Feel my Evil Neon Claws *****


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,661 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    "Was attacked by one"

    rofl


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Lucutus


    Ver, very good! heh...I liked this...
    7. Please indicate the three (3) factors that most influenced
    your
    decision
    to purchase this McDonnell Douglas product:

    [_] Style / appearance
    [_] Speed / manoeuvrability
    [_] Price / value
    [_] Comfort / convenience
    [_] Kickback / bribe
    [_] Recommended by salesperson
    [_] McDonnell Douglas reputation
    [_] Advanced Weapons Systems
    [_] Backroom politics
    [X] Negative experience opposing one in combat

    (The one with the X ) wink.gif


    Pure class

    biggrin.gif



    Lucutus of Borg


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    nice one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    hehe biggrin.gif


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    LOL


    John


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭NakedBibleReadingMan


    occupation:

    [_] student, lmao

    nice one wink.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Bloody Drunkard


    Brilliant Makes dossing off work more enjoyable


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