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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Advertising/Consumerism
Message-ID: <575@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 11:44:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 11:44:40 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 03:04:51 EDT
Reply-To: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA
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This has been bothering me for the past 10 or 12 years.

It seems like wherever I go, people are wearing t-shirts with advertising
on them.  When I go down to the beach, I see "Miller Time" or "Coors"
t-shirts, or t-shirts with the logo of some surfboard company on them. 
And at the gym I work out at, it seems everyone's got these shirts that say
"Nike" or "New Balance" or something like that.

What seems so stupid to me is that these people are paying some company
about 8 bucks a shirt to do that company's advertising for them.  I realize
that some people like to be identified with products that they consider
"prestigious," but I think these people have been fooled by years and years
of conditioning by advertisers.

If you wanted me to advertise something, you couldn't pay me enough to do it.
I think I'd feel like a walking billboard.
-- 
Bob Kaplan

"...and the pantaloon duck, white gooseneck quacked:  webcor, webcor."