From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!dan
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: old Timex TV blooper
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.629
Posted: Mon Nov  1 09:56:16 1982
Received: Wed Nov  3 02:02:59 1982

A recent article in net.micro made mention of the old John Cameron Swasey
Timex commercials.  That reminded me of a TV bloopers show that I
saw a while ago.

Apparently there was a time when TV commercials were shown live
(I report this only as heresay, I wasnt around then), which I believe
was the case up to the mid 50's.  The particular blooper I remember
showed good old John proudly attaching a Timex to the blade of an
outboard motor, running the motor for a little while, and then taking
off an obviously demolished watch.  He then proceeded to make an
admirable, but comical, effort to show that it still worked perfectly.

				Dan Ulrich
				Hemodialysis Lab, Purdue University
				pur-ee!dan  or  pur-ee!ecn-pa.dan