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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
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Subject: Re: RE: Have YOU seen this place?
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 04:24:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 04:24:24 1985
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>I thought I left moronic TV ads back in New York when  I  moved  to
>Colorado Springs.  WRONG-O buckeroos.  Germers is based in Colorado
>Springs and Pueblo (both Colorado) and has been there for at  least
>5  years.   I  guess that wacko got his training at the Crazy Eddie
>School of Pithy and Intellectual Salespersonship.

>....

>It has been said that the purpose of advertising is to get the con-
>sumer  to remember a name.  The obnoxious method of shouting a mes-
>sage, accompanied by nitwit antics must be  effective,  eh?   We're
>discussing it, aren't we?

    Hoo, boy, you haven't seen obnoxious until you see a Cal Worthington
commercial, or Tom Campbell who used to do some commercials for Cal
Stereo in the LA area. Really obnoxious, whining voice. Anywas, Cal
Worthington has about three or four BIG car dealerships in the LA area,
and not only are his commercials obnoxious, they're moronic, too!! Some
are of Cal with his "dog Spot", which was just about everything in the world
except for a dog, like an elephant, a tiger, a chimp(or a monkey), etc.

     When I went to Berkeley, I thought I'd seen the last of Tom Campbell,
but lo and behold, Cal Stereo must have Chapter 11'ed themseleves, `cause
he was up in the Bay area doing commercials for a local stereo chain there.
Then there was Ed Barbera(sp?) who had a furniture outlet of some sort that
looked like it sold really cheap and chincy furniture!!!!He became so famous
that someone wrote a song about him, titled appropriately enough "Ed Barbera"
sung to the tune of the Beach Boys "Barbara Ann"!!! The song did him justice!!