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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
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Subject: Re: HATE HATE HATE HATE...
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 00:57:59 EDT
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>How can ANY ad agency claim that "young people across America are
>switching to the NEW and IMPROVED taste of diet frobnitz...  The new
>frobnitz that's taking America by storm!" when the product has barely
>hit the shelves?

They can do it because no one is willing to waste the time and
resources necessary to gather the data to refute these claims.

> [...]

>No what else I hate?
>
>Strawberry Shortcake (tm)
>Care Bears (tm)
>My Little Pony (tm)
>Cabbage Patch Kids (tm)
>Cabbage Patch Kids Koosas (tm)
>
>        ... and He-Man (tm).

Sm.rfs.  You forgot sm.rfs.

> [...]

>It's a canned morality play with the subtlty of a lead brick and the
>substance of a box of kleenex.

They must have stolen it from Usenet! :-)

>  - Lord Frith

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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