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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: HATE HATE HATE HATE...
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 15:49:48 EDT
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In article <924@trwatf.UUCP>, root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
> No what I hate?  Some slick marketing campaign that depicts young,
> active people going ape shit over product frobnitz, as if it were the
> greatest joy of their lives.
> 
> 
> Nasha Lutcha!

Oh, so now we're flaming advertisements, time to toss in my 2 bits..

No what I hate? Frobnitz ( to borrow a term ) ads that start with
" *most* people see this valley from down there " or " *most* people
take the trail to get to this beach ". Well now that I know that
the person in the ad is a superior being, I'm sure I want to run
out and buy some frobnitz so I too can become superior. But then
they end the ad with the famous line, " the question isn't whether
frobnitz is good enough for you, are *you* good enough for
frobnitz". The little bubble over my head bursts, the ray of light
fades. FROBNITZ ISN'T GOING TO MAKE ME A SUPERIOR BEING IF I BUY IT,
RATHER I HAVE TO BE SUPERIOR BEFORE I CAN BUY IT. 

Oh well, so I'll have to go through life being the slimy little
nothing that I am. :-(

Mike