Margy is famous!

Wow! That's a good deal!

What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching their
mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

Heck - if I can close something, I might even splurge for a Jacuzzi!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:N8Jjb.799678$uu5.140928@sccrnsc04:

George, George, George. Our suites start at just $59.95 per night --
and your Usenet Discount knocks that down another 20%. Thus, for just
$47.95 per night, you get a 300 square foot suite, with a full kitchen,
breakfast bar, queen sized bed, and a delivered-to-your-suite breakfast
basket in the morning -- including the daily newspaper!

Or, you can pay 100% more, at $99.95, and stay at a Holiday Inn Express
in a room 50% smaller, with no kitchen, and no delivered breakfast.
(I guess that's what makes the people who stay there so "smart", eh?)

True, for $47.95 you won't enjoy an aviation theme suite, and you won't
get a jacuzzi hot tub -- but that suite (our smallest) is actually
*bigger* than the local Sheraton's BIGGEST suite. :-)

We have the most affordable luxury suites, anywhere -- period.

Wow! That's a good deal!

Thanks. We're holding the prices until all the suites are done -- at least
two years away...

What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching their
mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

The Press-Citizen has something close to 30,000. There are actually three
"local" papers -- the Press-Citizen (Gannett owned), the Gazette (out of
Cedar Rapids, family-owned), and the Daily Iowan (owned by the University).
Combined they probably have a circ of close to 70,000 -- in a city of
65,000!

This is a newspaper town, for sure. It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

Heck - if I can close something, I might even splurge for a Jacuzzi!

What do you pitch to the mailroom folks? I worked in Circulation and
Distribution for 22 years -- maybe I can steer you in the right direction?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck ) wrote:

It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

This just goes to show how tough the current job market is.


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Peter












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("Peter R." wrote)
It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

This just goes to show how tough the current job market is.

Nope. It's a college town thing. My sister has been in Boulder Colorado for
over 30 years. She says people take college courses, there at CU, the way
people in other cities go to the local health club or gym. Academic workout?
Brain Buff?

Even during the roaring 90's, she would often tell us about the guy bagging
her groceries, with a PhD in something obscure, or her mailman, the rocket
scientist.

--
Montblack

Montblack hit it on the head. We only have 2% unemployment around here --
it's just that people who graduate from the U of Iowa fall in love with the
place, and want to stay here. Many will take any job they can find in order
to do so.

Iowa City has also (I kid you not!) become a popular retirement destination.

As a result, we have two widely disparate groups who do nothing but go to
school in their spare time! It makes for an interesting place to live, and
a fabulous (if bored) work force.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:7hSjb.157329$%h1.154594@sccrnsc02:

Wow! That's a good deal!

Thanks. We're holding the prices until all the suites are done -- at
least two years away...

OK, then I have some time!


What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching
their mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

The Press-Citizen has something close to 30,000. There are actually
three "local" papers -- the Press-Citizen (Gannett owned), the Gazette
(out of Cedar Rapids, family-owned), and the Daily Iowan (owned by the
University). Combined they probably have a circ of close to 70,000 --
in a city of 65,000!

This is a newspaper town, for sure. It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)


Wow! That's amazing! Looks like I'll DEFINITELY have to drop by!


What do you pitch to the mailroom folks? I worked in Circulation and
Distribution for 22 years -- maybe I can steer you in the right
direction?

I saw you mention in a previous post that you had a DC or something in a
"previous life"...

If you've heard of a product called NEWSCOM, that's our "bread and
butter"... It's an Inserter control system for SLS's, 72's and 99's.
Besides NEWSCOM, we also do Stacker control upgrades and Inkjet systems
for labelling on bottomwraps and on TMCs. We're also going to be
producing a Bundle Distribution System next year...

Basically, we do software and controls from the Pressroom Wall to the
Loading Bay Window...

I probably shouldn't get too heavy into the pitch in the newsgroup. If
you want more details, or you can help me out at all, EMail me at my name
at miracomcomputer.com... (Hopefully that's obscure enough to avoid the
spam robots! )

Thanks!!

Judah

Jay Honeck wrote:

George, George, George. Our suites start at just $59.95 per night -- and
your Usenet Discount knocks that down another 20%. Thus, for just $47.95
per night, you get a 300 square foot suite, with a full kitchen, breakfast
bar, queen sized bed, and a delivered-to-your-suite breakfast basket in the
morning -- including the daily newspaper!

Ok, now *that's* a great deal. Can't exactly compete with staying at O'Kane's
for free, but then I'd have to put up with O'Kane for that. :-)

Still, if I'm out that way, I think I'd have to drop up to Cedar Rapids to see
the man.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

Jay Honeck wrote:

One of my desk clerks speaks 14 languages...

A couple fellows back home were directing traffic at the Museum of Appalachia's
entrance when a guy drove up and asked, "Sprechen sie Deutsch?"

Gene and Slim just stared at him. So the visitor tried, "Parlez vous Francais?"

Still no response. So he said, "Parlare Italiano?"

Nothing. So the fellow gave it one last effort with, "Habla Espanol?"

Zip. So, throwing his hands over his head in disgust, the visitor angrily sped away.

"Y'know, maybe we oughta learn a foreign language," said Gene.

"Why?" asked Slim. "That feller knew four of 'em, and it didn't do him
no good."

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...
[...]
"Why?" asked Slim. "That feller knew four of 'em, and it didn't do him
no good."

Of course, that story was obviously translated from whatever the folks
living in the Appalachian "hollers" speak. I don't know what it is, but it
isn't English.

"Peter Duniho" wrote

Of course, that story was obviously translated from whatever the
folks living in the Appalachian "hollers" speak. I don't know
what it is, but it isn't English.

Yes Pete, I see the smiley, but I still take it as a personal
insult having been born up Shelby Hollow in Shelbiana, Pike Co.,
Kentucky where the almost pure English descendants spoke some-
thing a lot more akin to the English spoken in the British Islands
than do many New Yorkers. :-)

Bob Moore