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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (49298)	3/4/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: David S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Rockhead and All: Re: Rocky Rides the Bull in NYC: This past Monday, I was in New York walking through the Wall Street area and came upon the famous sculpture of a bronze bull as I rounded a corner. To my utter surprise, there riding the head of this great beast was our own Iomega clown, Rocky Reid, who was apparently butt naked. Well actually that isn't quite true because he was adorned with a variety of Iomega products that could be mistaken for an outfit. On his back a Jaz2 drive was affixed and it was connected to some small speakers and stuff on his head that was blasting out the Iomega song... "Zippity Do Da, Zippity Day, My o' my what a wonderful day!". And around his waist was a Buz cable with the multipronged unit dangling down his back covering his crack. In the front, a dark Zip disk was taped to the cable by two corners and this little 3.5 inch square was quite effective in covering his privates which were nowhere to be seen. Apparently, his modesty also extended to his upper body as a thin black Zip drive power cord was tied around his chest, and this was festooned with two tiny 2" by 2" Clik disks that were exactly positioned to cover the nipples on his chest. All in all it reminded me of an image of Trufflette in black lace undies, except Rocky wasn't half as cute and certainly bizarre in his strange outfit. (I recognized him from his Harrison Ford look-alike picture.) Too bad I forgot my camera!! ...About a half block away a CNBC reporter Alan Chernoff, was doing a stand up with a TV cameraman in front of the stock exchange, and he noticed Rocky in his wild getup and they came over with the camera crew to see what was happening. Chernoff, tried to question Rocky as to why he was riding the bull in that outfit of Iomega parts and products, but he was unable to get Rocky to stop singing and flogging himself with two SCSI Zip cables he was swinging in his right hand. Gradually a crowd built up around this spectacle as it was just after 4 PM and brokers were streaming out of their offices. It turned out to be quite a circus. ...By the way Rocky was so full of himself with the goings on and the big crowd that I was unable to introduce myself. And when I saw the police cars coming I decided not to stick around and walked on. ...Could anybody please tell me if this incident made the CNBC news? Because he was pretty naked, they may have kept it off the prime time news or just cut it for other reasons. But it may have aired as filler for the late night broadcast. Please let me know. Thanks. David S. Long on Intel and Iomega