From mhoye@prince.carleton.ca Mon Apr 30 11:48:51 2001 Date: 24 Mar 2001 00:34:35 GMT From: Michael Hoye Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: St Chucky's Web Site In article <87bsqsoy2d.fsf@arachne.hamilton.edu>, Eric P. McCoy wrote: >mhoye@prince.carleton.ca (Michael Hoye) writes: > >> >Hey! Feminine hygiene product commercials are funny. > >> I just wish they'd quit dropping them into the middle of suspenseful shows >> or sports. > >The part that kills me is that they _deliberately_ organize them to >take you by surprise. They make the first part look like an Allegra >commercial with a woman doing something vaguely athletic, and >suddenly they mention personal dryness and start pouring blue liquids >into anti-itching cream, or whatever. What we really need is a 270-lb black guy in football gear saying "The other day, my girlfriend said to me 'Emmet, sometimes I just don't feel fresh.' So I said to her 'Try these new pad. They got ruffles.' And she said 'ruffles?', and I said 'Yeah. Ruffles. Consider the following blue liquid test...'" I'm not sure how you'd work out the segue from The X-Files or Cops into a tampon commercial, but I'll think about it. -- Mike Hoye "This blue liquid is proof, Scully! Proof!"