the world

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 10:46 PM, sagehen wrote:

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>  . I was reminiscing about locutions that were
>> formerly considered to be of serious import, but which now are mere
>> dust in the wind, to coin a phrase. BTW, are you old enough to
>> remember
>> "Winston's taste good, like a cigarette should!" and the accompanying
>> prescriptivist brouhaha? If an ad agency came up with that slogan
>> today, it would read, "Winstons taste good, how a cigarette should!"
>>
>> -Wilson
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> IIRC, the grousers then wanted to purify the airwaves (though not the
> air,
> of course!) with "Winstons taste good _as_ a cigarette should."
> A. Murie
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> Of course, really, nothing  ever tasted as good as a plain unfiltered
> Camel.
> ........but that was long ago.............  .   .   .     .
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And there was nothing that smelled so good as the fragrance of a
newly-opened, fresh pack of Camels. Those were the days.

-Wilson