Message 64:
In article <41kj6u$4ib@swlpfv.msd.ray.com>,
jcn@swl.msd.ray.com (John Norcross {83602}) wrote:

IBM, Throw this TV commercial together *NOW* and get it on the air so
that it plays directly *after* a Microsoft ad...


P.S.  You have my express permission to use this idea.  Get Busy!


[...Fade in...]

[Sweeping view of very tall, corporate looking building... The camera
zooms in and begins slowly panning up the building, window by window.
Inside, we see people running PC's loaded with OS/2 Warp (Logos and
Warp boxes prominently displayed).  Everyone is smiling, happy,
productive...

The camera now pans rapidly to the roof, where it provides a large,
panaramic view of a large crowd of anxious looking people who are
gathered forming a long line behind a banner that says "New Windows
Operating System!"  Every few seconds, a scream is heard which quickly
fades away into the distance...]

A reporter with a microphone approaches one of the people in the line
and asks, "Hello, What are you doing here?".  The person responds,
sounding unsure and hesitant, "I'm here to purchase the new Windows
operating system."

The reporter responds with, "Why do that when OS/2 Warp, a stable, easy
to use, PC operating system does everything it does, only better!?"

The person shrugs and says "Umm, because everyone is??"

[All of a sudden another ear-splitting scream is heard receding rapidly
into the distance... The camera begins panning directly up, and the
source of the screams is now revealed.  People are being handed boxes
of "Windows 95" just as they are stepping off of the building.] [Rapid
fade-out]

[Rapid Fade-in: PC with a box of Warp sitting beside it.  On it's
display, a colorful, heavily jazzed-up OS/2 desktop is running several
programs to include an AVI, and few windowed apps, a windowed game,
etc.]

[Reporter, whose image is seen within the AVI]

"When it comes to making the leap to a new PC operating system - choose
the one that is stable, compatible, proven, and delivers unmatched
performance - choose IBM's OS/2 Warp...."

[Fade to black... Reporter: "Don't be a lemming...."  another
scream is heard fading into the distance...