[Ads-l] TV ad: "My doctor says I have Skittles-pox."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 30 22:20:30 UTC 2016


"_Are they_ contagious?"


The copy-writer(s) interpreted _pox_ as _pocks_?!

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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