Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

My wife just had a promotion offer from a mail order company she deals in.
Cheesy effort, couched as if it were a transcript of an internal memo
indicating why she had been a customer too long for the bronze award given
to recent customers, too regular a shopper for the silver award given to
infrequent customers and had spent too much for the gold award. Therefore
she had to be referred to the top dog for consideration of a platinum award,
for which he was able to recommend her because '' Having studied Mrs Dean's
customer records it is clear they are a highly valued customer.''
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John Dean
Oxford