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From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A)
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Subject: Re: Re: Ambiguous advertising slogans (should be "clever slogan")
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 19:01:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 19:01:15 1985
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> 
>      I fancy the combination of words in each of these two statements:
> 
>         1) "The mind is a terrible thing to waste"
> 
>            (Has appeared on billboards, in magazines, etc.; slogan for
>             the United Negro College Fund; "to waste a mind is a terrible
>             thing" might have been preferable)
> 
Actually, I've often been amused by that slogan, because it's taken from an
e. e. cummings poem, which is printed exactly as shown below.  Apparently,
they missed the double meaning:

		a mind is a terrible thing
			to waste
		it gives man his greatest pleasure

Mike Gray, BTL, WH