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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anthromorphising (was Re: Amiga will bump Mac.)
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.052921.25269@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 05:29:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.004444.4556@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr03.181603.19355@ariel.unm.edu> <5839@mcrware.UUCP>
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In article <5839@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
>
>This is a cute idea.  Even better would be some Macintosh ads with Oedipal
>implications.  (The Doors' "The End" would be *just* the music.  "Father?"
>"ACK."  "I want to boot you."  "Mother?  I want to..." :-)
>
>	James Jones

Too blatant.  The secret of subliminal advertizing is that it ensures that
the target's ego defenses remain intact.  Too batant of an oedipal reference
would cause the target to withdraw or become hostile.  All the Macintoys
out there would shy away and hate Amiga forever probably.


                                   NCW