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2007-01-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Popcorn pitchman comes back from the dead

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Posted by Mike 2007-01-16 06:25|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Um, it's not really that convincing. At least not in the still pic in that story.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-16 07:29|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-16 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Nobody tell Raul Castro about this.

Posted by ed 2007-01-16 07:58|| 2007-01-16 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not sure he was all that effective a pitchman anyway. Time to come up with a new idea.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-16 12:08|| 2007-01-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Still, this is a milestone on the way to the day when there will be no more real-life dunderhead lefty whacko hollywood actors - only digitally created characters who never say or do anything to alienate any segment of the marketplace and who don't cost $20 mil a flick. The studio heads are rubbing their hands together...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-01-16 13:00|| 2007-01-16 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Jeez, they made him look even dorkier now then he did then...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-16 13:27|| 2007-01-16 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine doing this kind of presentation with some famous actrss who died tragically like a Marilyn Monroe...

Then, wait until you have an obsessed fan doing damage to his object of desire by putting a virus on the hard drive that created the ads...

A whole new class of crimes will have to be legislated on... Virtual reality games X 1000...

Posted by BigEd 2007-01-16 15:49|| 2007-01-16 15:49|| Front Page Top

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