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From: hal@cornell.UUCP (Hal Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: ads in movies
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Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 16:00:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 16:00:56 1984
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The way I heard it, the M&M people turned down the chance to supply ET bait
because they thought it would project the "wrong image" for their candy to
be gobbled up by a wierd creature from space.  Seems that they guessed wrong...


Hal Perkins                         UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal
Cornell Computer Science            ARPA: hal@cornell  BITNET: hal@crnlcs