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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