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- From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
- Subject: Re: Fred 'n' Barney light up.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.175740.16660@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:57:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.041726.15082@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
- >Last Friday, some club on campus was having a fund-raiser by showing
- >some old 60's cartoons (Underdog, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle,
- >etc.)
- >
- >One of the things they showed was an old commercial that featured
- >Fred Flinstone & the gang hawking Winston cigarettes. It was so weird!
- >It was like watching their evil twins or something...
- >
- >The audience boo'ed & hissed through the whole thing.
- >
- >--
- >Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatum -- William of Ockham
- >(Fact need not be multiplied beyond necessity)
-
- I just got a tape from a trade that had a commercial with Fred, Barney, Wilma
- and the whole gang pimping for the original One-A-Day vitamins.
- It is truly weird to watch. Particularly since it is in black and white!
-
- --Judex--
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