whoa….one heck of a thread here…
Seriously, sending a email to complain about string can telephones in a soup
ad, well, that’s odd even by my standards.
Now, that being said, my wife asked me the other day how they (the ad people)
got the GEICO insurance pig, Milton, to talk.
I told her simply; if offered enough money, anyone will talk.
Mike Bryce WB8VGE
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> On 12/4/2014 1:51 PM, K3GHH wrote:
>> This is almost as OT as they get, so OT foes, hit Delete immediately!
>>
>> Is anyone else in our group bugged by the Progresso soup TV ad that features
>> a tin-can "telephone"? Surely some of you, like me, built and tried one as
>> kids. The Progresso ad has the string hanging loose and immediately taking a
>> 90-degree turn when it emerges from the bottom of the soup can. This
>> probably wouldn't bug me so much if a friend and I hadn't been
>> semi-successful with a string and tin can "telephone" back in the 1950s, so
>> I know how they work, and it's not like that!
>>
>> I actually emailed Progresso and explained that its ad men could not
>> possibly have ever used such a "telephone," but have not heard back (yet).
>>
>> --John K3GHH
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