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- From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)
- Subject: Re: YAFM (I know, but this one's weird!)
- Message-ID: <wcsbeau.725776980@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1VcZVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec27.051728.18674@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:43:00 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- >In article <1VcZVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> griller@bluemoon.use.com (Scott Hout) writes:
- >>I accidently hit #P instead of <control> when trying to look
- >>back on some previous game message, thereby praying to my God.
- >>The game comes back with, "You feel Loki is pleased. There's
- >>a tiger in your tank."
- >>Now I had killed a tiger several hundred moves before, but I
- >>hadn't eaten it (I was quite satiated at the time from a coupla
- >>Fire Giants). Isn't the above some reference to ESSO gasoline
- >>or some fuel company? I vaguely remember the ad campaign from
- >>my youth...
-
- They seem to have started this campaign again, in Canada at least.
- There are several TV ads featruring an cartoon tiger, and I've seen at
- least one orange-and-black striped tail hanging out of a gasoline tank
- cover.
-
- As a non-driver, I couldn't tell you much more than that...
-