[HBR] another take on "all talk..."

[Helmut Usbeck]

>At 6:44 PM -0400 4/26/02, waltah@cfw.com wrote:
>>
>>All talk, no action in the HBR department for the last year.
>
>--
>
>Walt's tag line reminds me of a humorous sign I used to see at=
 the
>Tokyo office of a company I used to work for. In the kind of=
 broken
>syntax that I have to admire from anyone who has struggled to=
 learn
>English as a second language, the sign exhorted us "NOT TO BE=
 NATO".
>It was explained to me that NATO meant "No Action, Talk Only"!
>
 Same pronunciation as the Japanese
>word for fermented soy bean paste which (to me) is a rather
>foul-smelling substance.

               Something like the tag line?  Nuoc Mam sauce=
 anyone?!

>73,
>Joe K9LY (still scrounging parts; consider me NATO for now!)
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Helmut Usbeck, WB2ADT vze2gmp4@verizon.net on 04/29/2002