Re: How to confirm someone is an OCP?

In article <t2yY8.35472$Hj3.106159_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>, "Richard says...
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>Hi Norman,
>
>Oracle produced a number of very nice, high quality leather jackets to
>promote the OCP program (with the OCP emblem of the front breast which kind
>of ruined the look of them). Now how one managed to get hold of one depends
>entirely on who you ask.
>
>Pete Sharman for example would claim that you had to be one of the first 150
>OCPs worldwide.

Well that's what I got told by Oracle when I got sent mine for free back in the 7.3 OCP days (and of course we always believe what Oracle tells us, don't we?)

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>Howard Rogers would claim that you had to be someone for whom a leather
>jacket would match the usual wardrobe worn by the applicant.
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>I have always claimed that my leather jacket was due to the fact that I
>answered every single question correctly and that I'm an all round nice guy.
>
>Now the truth of the matter is one of the above is true, one of the above is
>(sadly) probably based on some truth and one of the above is a total load of
>cow pooh.

Hmm, no 3 is sure to bet a total load of cow pooh! ;)

Funny thing was you could buy one for roughly $400 (Oz) - not sure if you still can.

Pete
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>Your mission is to guess which is which :)
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>Regards
>
>Richard
>"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA7025DC21D_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> what leather jackets ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Norman.
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> Norman Dunbar
>> Database/Unix administrator
>> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
>> mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
>> Tel: 0113 289 6265
>> Fax: 0113 289 3146
>> URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
>> -------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Foote [mailto:richard.foote_at_bigpond.com]
>> Posted At: Saturday, July 13, 2002 5:13 AM
>> Posted To: server
>> Conversation: How to confirm someone is an OCP?
>> Subject: Re: How to confirm someone is an OCP?
>>
>>
>> Hey Pete (and Howard),
>>
>> Forgot to mention one really really nice aspect of OCP, 'The Leather
>> Jackets" !!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
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>

HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.

Pete

SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements; Received on Mon Jul 15 2002 - 12:32:15 CDT