Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!nsc!nessus 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 Article-I.D.: nsc.2993 Posted: Wed Jul 17 15:54:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:43:35 EDT Distribution: na Organization: The Patriarchy of Kzin, Kzin Lines: 43 >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