Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've tried those strips, and if you ask me, they don't do either one,

JL

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject:      Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!"
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> Translated Into BE:
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> "These strips made me fall completely in love with them!"
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> Why couldn't they have used,
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> "These strips completely opened my nasal passages!"
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> as they used to do? More dumbing-down?
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