[Ads-l] Archetypal Advertisement: Eat at Joe's
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 1 23:49:39 UTC 2017
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> Of course, "Joe sent me" is entirely different from "Eat at Joe's."
That's why I preceded my comments with
> Apropos of nothing,
lest it be thought that I was trying to make some relevant point. I was
considering the addition of "GI _Joe_." Fortunately, I didn't.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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