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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!english
- From: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Shampoo
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 14:06:23 -0800
- Organization: Nerds of Action
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- References: <1992Dec30.035047.27125@news.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: joe@trystero.art.com
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- In article <1992Dec30.035047.27125@news.columbia.edu>, hauben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Michael Hauben) writes:
- |> As I was taking a shower this morning I thought to myself:
- |>
- |> "Hmmm, Why are there so many brands of shampoo in the
- |> stores? This is confusing, because shampoo is basically liquid
- |> soap, no?"
- |>
- |> This occured to me because there is much wasted time
- |> effort and money because of the mass of shampoo brands. Is the
- |> world a better place because there are 20x10^10 brands of
- |> shampoo? Other than person Y's higher or shiner hair I don't
- |> think it makes a didily squat difference!
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- Are you from the States? Apparently not.
-
- I'll explain:
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- All shampoo is basically the same. There are three kinds of
- cigarettes: unfiltered, filtered, and low-tar. There are
- two kinds of breakfast cereals: stuff with lots of sugar
- and stuff without lots of sugar. There is one kind of
- tennis shoe. There are two kinds of bottled water: fizzy
- and non-fizzy.
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- Everybody knows this.
-
- Fortunately, there is an infinite number of possible marketing
- campaigns for all of those.
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- This is the foundation of the American economy.
-
-
- --joe@trystero.art.com
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- ignore this posting
-