Years ago when I worked at Honeywell, we had an engineer who was about as arrogant as could be (Rainer, you probably knew him). He had arranged to give a demonstration to Sr. Management of a recently completed test station he had been responsible for. Another guy I worked with got the idea to set him up. We got his manager to inform the visitors there would be a little fun at the demo. We ran some tygon tubing through the back of the station , over the wall in the assembly area, and into an adjacent office. When this guy powered up the set for his visitors, we had lit up a couple of cigars and began puffing the smoke through the two tubes. This guy came completely unglued when smoke began rolling out of his baby, despite the obvious cigar smell. Fortunately, he took it better than expected and after that, his demo went well. Over time, he actually became a pretty good guy when he quit taking himself so seriously. I pulled the same stunt on someone here at Nielsen years later with about the same result. Difference was that the "victim" had a great sense of humor and after the initial reaction, go as big a laugh as everyone else. Have a great weekend Bob Croslin Nielsen Media Research --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------