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Message no. 1
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:35:20 -0400
Funny story.

Friend of mine just got a job out in Seattle. (Lucky-so-and-so is working
for Cavedog, designing their version of Battle.net!)

Anywho, he goes out to Seattle for the interview, and the day he's there,
they're too busy to talk to him.
They're paying for everything, so it's no big deal. They give him a rental
car at noon, and tell him to come back tomorrow!

So he drives around Seattle and manages to get completely lost.
He can't even seem to find a gas station where he can get a map!

Finally he realizes that he threw his SRbooks in his duffle bag, and that
it's in the trunk.
He flips to the page with the map of Seattle, and 1 hour later he's back at
his hotel!

Even funnier, after the interview, and he discovered that he got the job,
thet set him up in an apartment.
He checks the map again, and realizes that he's living in Snohomish, right
next to the barrens! ;-)

Cracked me up.

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://listen.to/Tinner
"I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral ..." - BNL
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:11:41 -0600
Steven A. Tinner wrote:
/
/ So he drives around Seattle and manages to get completely lost.
/ He can't even seem to find a gas station where he can get a map!
/
/ Finally he realizes that he threw his SRbooks in his duffle bag, and that
/ it's in the trunk.
/ He flips to the page with the map of Seattle, and 1 hour later he's back at
/ his hotel!

LOL. I have never, never, heard of anyone using an RPG map to find their
way around :)

-David
--
"If I told you, then I'd have to pull a Shadowrun against you. Sorry."
--
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Message no. 3
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:59:30 -0600
At 12:11 13/07/98 -0600, you wrote:

>/ Finally he realizes that he threw his SRbooks in his duffle bag, and that
>/ it's in the trunk.
>/ He flips to the page with the map of Seattle, and 1 hour later he's back at
>/ his hotel!
>
>LOL. I have never, never, heard of anyone using an RPG map to find their
>way around :)

Damn good thing he wasn't trying to get around England with it.

-Adam
Lad, you're on the wrong coast..
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Message no. 4
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:17:41 -0400
>Even funnier, after the interview, and he discovered that he got the job,
>thet set him up in an apartment.
>He checks the map again, and realizes that he's living in Snohomish, right
>next to the barrens! ;-)

When I interviewed at Micro$oft during college, one of the interviewer and I
got to talking about SR over dinner. He found the fact the Microsoft's
location (Redmond) is an urban wasteland in 2054 extremely amusing.

Wordman
Message no. 5
From: K is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:55:09 EDT
In a message dated 7/13/98 2:02:43 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG writes:

> LOL. I have never, never, heard of anyone using an RPG map to find their
> way around :)
>
> -David
>
You were aware that the Corporate Shadowfiles text contained enough to get
some high school students to pass a Management test weren't you? It was a
story I read a few years back. I don't which would be more interesting to
believe, the fact that the american education system is -THAT- bad or that the
material was that accurate. I was in a college course, and a LOT of it did
mirror the text materials we were using at that time.

-K
Message no. 6
From: "Droopy ." <mmanhardt@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:44:04 -0400
From: K is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Real Life uses for the Seattle Sourcebook

> You were aware that the Corporate Shadowfiles text contained enough to get
> some high school students to pass a Management test weren't you? It was a
> story I read a few years back. I don't which would be more interesting to
> believe, the fact that the american education system is -THAT- bad or that the
> material was that accurate. I was in a college course, and a LOT of it did
> mirror the text materials we were using at that time.

The material is that accurate, IIRC.


--Droopy

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