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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Classic Coke (The three faces of Cosby)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 11:58:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 11:58:49 1985
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> Actually, I was a little annoyed with Cosby over the Coke change.
> His original Coke ads were all about how Pepsi was too sweet
> and he liked the taste of less-sweet Coke better. Then they
> changed the formula to make it sweeter and more like pepsi
> and here he is saying how great it is.
> 
> Mike

] Actually, I'm a little annoyed with everybody denounceing Cosby
] for making a switch in what he says on the coke commercials.
] Cosby is a very respectible spokesman. He is one of a vanishing
] breed in the US, not to metion Hollywood, a family man, husband
] and father. He does commercials that he believes in to make 
] money to take care of he and his. He gets locked into a contract
] with coke to do XXX spots for XXX years.  No Problem. Then, 
] coke pulls the biggest knee-jerk of the decade and he is strung
] out on a wire with his credibility hanging out. 
] So what happends, just as expected people blast him. JUST WHAT
] IN THE HELL WAS HE GONNA DO. ITS A DAMN IF YOU DO DAMN IF YOU
] DON'T SITUATION.
]
] Don't tell me that nobody in .flame has ever been put in the
] squeeze or caught between a power play at work. The only thing 
] you want to do is find a tightrope and get the hell out of the 
] middle.
] Leave the man alone.
]
]                                       Bob Nebert
]                                    sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn