-=> Quoting Charles Daniels to Fred Austin <=-
 >II> those markings strongly resembled the word "VIDEO"!  I'm sure some
 >II> enterpraneur will come up with the idea of tradmarking their product
 >II> with the Mars "face."  EGADS!
 CD> What I'm trying to figure is why they would place such a dead giveaway
 CD> there?  As a show off joke like "Ha! Ha!  On you, look at this
 CD> fabulous in joke, I fooled you all, I'm going to sell lots of "VIDEO"s
 CD> with this!" Or just someone not being very bright..or maybe they bought
 CD> it from somewhere thinking "Yeah this looks alien enough.." 
    Hi Charles,
        Exactly correct.  An injoke.  Something blatant in your  face, 
yet could be misinterpreted as something else.  True big time  hoaxers 
or gag artists always left a calling card somewhere.......
Happy Trails,
Fred.
 Internet: Fred.Austin@juxta.mn.pubnix.net   
           Fred.Austin@sphinx.hughestech.com 
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