Top Ten ("...a space in the middle for adverts")
kent mueller
artkm at execpc.com
Sun Sep 19 21:32:58 CDT 2004
"Raid kills bugs dead."
Lew Welch, for Johnson Wax. Before he started using his typewriter as an
ashtray, and vanished forever, with a shot gun, from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's
trailer in the desert.
Kent Mueller
Visit KM art's web site at http://www.execpc.com/~artkm/
> From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:02:34 -0700 (PDT)
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: Top Ten ("...a space in the middle for adverts")
>
> 1. Those Coppertone billboards from the 1960's (a pedophile's frickin'
> dream)
>
> 2. "Hi Guy!" mouthwash commercial campaign, early 70's --Scope?
>
> 3. The Gulf "no-knocks" campaign from the late '60s (pixilated people
> scooting through town on their butts, the machine civilization a thing
> of the past)
>
> 4. "I can't believe I ate the whole thing. (You ate it Ralph...)"
> --Alka Seltzer
>
> 5. "Stronger than Dirt" (The Doors, Soft Parade)
>
> 6. any mid-'70s kitchen gadget ad from Ron Popiel
>
> 7. "Where's the Beef?!" --Wendy's
>
> 8. "Big Brother" hammer toss --Apple
>
> 9. the late '80s "Dr. Zizmor" subway campaign in New York
>
> and the most effective advertising slogan of our time:
>
> 10. "The smoking gun may turn out to be a mushroom cloud."
>
>
>
> --- "Mark A. Douglas" <madness at airmail.net> wrote:
>
>> Can we do top ten commericials next?
>
>
>
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