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- From: dsohl@spock.uucp (Daniel Sohl)
- Subject: Re: Subliminal Advertising
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.170721.18151@choate.edu>
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- References: <C1293K.4BK@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <brad_lange-180193154557@222.188.55.223> <3485@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:07:21 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
-
- When he misspelled that word,
- How could he have known that
- You would be
- So eager and
- Happy to correct him?
- Of course, this is a gross
- Understatement, as very few
- Losers bothered to check the
- Damn spelling, as you,
- Interestingly enough, have. <G>
- --
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- Dan Sohl |"If there's nothing wrong with |"I don't know anything
- dsohl@choate.edu| me, there must be something | about music. In my line,
- | wrong with the universe!" | you don't have to."
- | Dr. Crusher, "Remember Me" | -- Elvis Presley
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