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- From: comptec92076@camins.camosun.bc.ca
- Subject: Re: Subliminal Advertising
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.140037.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- References: <C11ttz.Juu@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <C1293K.4BK@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <brad_lange-180193154557@222.188.55.223> <3485@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:00:37 GMT
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- In article <3485@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays) writes:
- > In article <brad_lange-180193154557@222.188.55.223> brad_lange@chdqm1.sps.mot.com (Brad Lange) writes:
- > |n article <C1293K.4BK@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery)
- > |wrote:
- >
- > |> In article <C11ttz.Juu@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr) writes:
- > |>> In article <C0x5y4.B3o@coral.cs.unm.edu> sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gup
- > |ta) writes:
- > |>>>In article <1993Jan14.212542.3959@news.arc.nasa.gov> nicholso@pioneer.arc.n
- > |asa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH) writes:
- >
- > |>>>>Your message
- > |>>>>on submlinals
- > |>>>>underscores an
- > |>>>>important point
- > |>>>>deserving praise
- > |>>>>instead of flames
- > |>>>>others might fling
- > |>>>>to you so viciously
- >
- > |>>>>Mel
- >
- > |>>>I wonder how many people
- > |>>>got your message?
- > |>>>Everyone I taked to
- > |>>>thought it was an
- > |>>>interesting message,
- > |>>>though they didn't understand it fully.
- >
- > |>>Same here,I spoke to
- > |>>over 30 people who
- > |>>didnt get it.
- > |>>I of course
- > |>>did try to explain it
- > |>>in words of one syllable.
- >
- > |>didn't ask me though
- > |>i got it (eventually)
- > |>though I have to admit
- > |>that it did take a while.
- > |>only joking :-)
- >
- > |My friends and I
- > |especially liked
- > |the way the
- > |original post lined
- > |out so nicely on the right.
- >
- > |Brad
- >
- > Spelling errors had a lot
- > to do with the lining effect.
- > Of course, he may have intentionally
- > put the misspelled word in
- > to achieve that effect. He may
- > have thought his message was obvious otherwise.
- > It took me about three seconds to see it.
- > Some people are too impressed with themselves.
- >
- > Joe
-
- I'm inclined to think that
- certain people took
- a little longer than most.
- Not that they are stupid, just
- that it's not that obvious at first.
-
- Jason
-