Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:28:18 -0700
From: David Harnick-Shapiro david[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BUCKAROO.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: Cigarette brands. Help, please!
On Wed, 5 Apr 1995 11:42, Larry Horn writes:
I was wondering about Death brand cigs too; perhaps the tobacco
companies are taking a new tack on pre-empting false advertising
lawsuits. But I like that airlines company as well. It reminds
me of the routine Monty Python used to have (or some other
group--does anyone recall it?) that played off the old "With a
name like Smuckers it HAS to be good", creating e.g. Vomit brand
canned ham or Dead Cat brand aerosol (those weren't the original
examples, but should give you the idea): "With a name like ____,
it has to be absolutely fanTAStic!"
It was one of Saturday Night Live's fake ads. (Early years; I think
Garrett Morris was in it.) Voice-overs took turns, each trying to be
more disgusting than the others. They were all one-liners, until the
final one, which ran something like:
"Forty nuns and orphans."
"What's so disgusting about that?"
"That's what the rats ate."
(*That* should get us off our food obsession for a while!)
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