When journalism goes bad
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I like the cows; I always saw it as a more clever variation on how many places (usually barbecue joints) have a jolly mascot of the animal that makes up their dishes. I know I've even seen a few logos where the animal is cheerfully cutting itself up, though I can't find them right now.
I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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Yes!!!!!! I remember that from back in the day. I bow to your superior internet navigation tonight.
I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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You have strong keyword fu. Everything I typed into Google got me weird shit but not the weird shit I was looking for. 

I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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I can't remember any mascot animals chopping themselves up, but I do remember those old canned tuna commercials -- maybe Chicken of the Sea? -- where a glasses-wearing fish named Charlie wants to go in the can but he can't because he's not high-quality tuna so "Sorry, Charlie." And even as a little kid I remember being horrified and thinking that if I were Charlie I'd want to stay as far away from those fishhooks and tuna cans as I could.
(EDIT: A quick Google search shows the "Sorry Charlie" commercials were actually for Star-Kist.)
(EDIT: A quick Google search shows the "Sorry Charlie" commercials were actually for Star-Kist.)
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Charlie was going through some really bad shit at the time, clearly:
"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
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I read the Wikipedia entry about that campaign; apparently the joke is, he was based on an actual real-life hipster/hepcat/whatever form back in the day. Not that I remembered or noticed; even that cartoon commercial I linked to here was merely the first to come up when I searched for "Sorry Charlie" and tuna commercials, not one I actually remember from back in the day. (I cannot remember any one specific commercial; I only remember Charlie himself, "Sorry Charlie" and that fishhook.)Eric the .5b wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 23:06Charlie was going through some really bad shit at the time, clearly:
In that older black-and-white video you posted, it looks at least like Charlie's friend gets it; he looked horrified for a second, when Charlie mentioned that he's got "connections" because Star-Kist took his brother-in-law last week. (Which IMO Is even worse than the later ones.)
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Douglas Adams' "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" had a creature that would come to your table and offer advice on ordering it's meat. Like a talking cow with a death wish.
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Not sure that cable "news" hosts count as journalists, but this is a devastating comment on Hannity:
"ike Wile E. Coyote salivating over a "4000 Ways To Prepare Roadrunner" cookbook without watching his surroundings, the Road Runner of Societal Inertia snuck up on them both and beepbeeped them off the mesa."
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