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- From: med2062@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.E. Donnaruma)
- Subject: Re: YAFM (I know, but this one's weird!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.142836.25045@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- References: <1VcZVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec27.051728.18674@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <wcsbeau.725776980@cunews>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:28:36 GMT
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- In article <wcsbeau.725776980@cunews> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:
- >>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...
-
- Exxon (which used to be ESSO) still uses a tiger in their ads. (The one
- I can remember is a running tiger turning into a car...)
-
- But anyways, not to get off the subject... Someone write a spoiler file
- for NH++! :>
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-