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From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Classic Coke (The three faces of Cosby)
Message-ID: <2993@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 15:54:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 15:54:16 1985
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>From: john@moncol.UUCP ()
>Newsgroups: net.flame
>Subject: Re: Classic Coke (The three faces of Cosby)
>Message-ID: <426@moncol.UUCP>
>
>]From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
>]Message-ID: <191@tekcrl.UUCP>
>]
>]>(By the way, this might make an interesting topic for a net.flame
>]>discussion- does Bill Cosby really believe in the products he advertises or
>]>will he say anything for a company that pays him enough?)
>]
>]       I've always wondered about that myself. I thought he wasn't sincere
>]enough in the new commercials proclaiming "...the new taste is the greatest.."
>
>It always seemed to me that there are (or were) three faces of Bill Cosby:
>
>	1) The Cosby Kid grown up- talking about Fat Albert and how mom
>	   should buy you some Jello Pudding. ("Hmmm...")
>	
>	2) Bill Cosby, adult- spokesman for a leading soft dring manu-
>	   facturer. ("The greatest Coke in the history of.... ever!")
>	
>	3) William H. Cosby Jr., Phd- with a doctorate in Child Psychology,
>	   who better to extoll the educational merits of the Texas Instru-
>	   ments Home Computer ("This is the one.")
>
>I wonder... Could New Coke be considered the TI-99/4 of soft drinks?

     I resent that remark!  Just because I'm designing, building, and program-
ming my own peripherals (printer driver right now), AND Texas Instruments chose
to over-complicate their design by using three parts where one would do AND
making interfacing and peripheral-driver programming a BEAR to do, doesn't make
it a bad machine!

     Having Bill Cosby advertising the 99/4A does/did:-).  Would you buy a
computer that the Jello(tm) man pushes?  No flames about THAT; I bought the
computer before I saw any advertisements for it.

				From the alter ego of--

				Kchula-Rrit