[geeks] burger death

[Rob]

I saw that. Very cool. I never knew he was a high school dropout either.
While he never seemed stupid in his comercials, I always remember thinking
that he was 'just plain folks' from his manner. He worked for his
millions. What a concept today!

- Rob

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Fogg, James wrote:

> The Biography Channel re-ran a 3 year old biography of Dave Thomas this
> morning at 12:00am (don't ask me why I was up that late). He crawled to the
> top from the absolute bottom. I didn't know he made a killing with KFC
> chicken.
>
> Who could ever forget "Where's the Beef?"
>
> James Fogg, Network Engineer
> Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
> (603) 442-1751
>
> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: Kris Kirby [mailto:kris at catonic.net]
> ~ Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:06 PM
> ~ To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
> ~ Subject: Re: [geeks] burger death
> ~
> ~
> ~ On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Fogg, James wrote:
> ~ > RIP Dave Thomas
> ~
> ~ Yeah, I'm going to miss the fella to say the least. He put a face on a
> ~ huge corporation and was genuinely nice in the commercials.
> ~ You know, just
> ~ some old guy telling you about his hurgers -- without sound effects,
> ~ without video effects -- just nice and easy.
> ~
> ~ This is truely a sad day for advertising.
> ~
> ~ Holy Fucking Shit -- Dave Thomas died on my brother's 21st birthday. I
> ~ just realized it.
> ~
> ~ -----
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