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  2. From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.autos
  4. Subject: Re: best car ads
  5. Message-ID: <1k7dkdINN168@calamari.hi.com>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 20:41:33 GMT
  7. References: <ILH.93Jan27123904@chicago.lcs.mit.edu> <1993Jan27.190753.4353@cs.tulane.edu> <2587@shaman.wv.tek.com>
  8. Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
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  12. In article <2587@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
  13. >My favorite: the National Lampoon ad for Volkswagen, showing a Beetle
  14. >floating in the sea.  "If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Beetle at
  15. >Chappaquidick, he would be president today."
  16.  
  17. That didn't appear in the magazine itself, but in the first printing of
  18. _National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor_, circa 1973.  And it was VW,
  19. not the Kennedy family, that made them pull it.
  20.  
  21. My favorite ads were the 1-inch, single column ads King Midget used to
  22. run in the back pages of Popular Mechanics, etc....
  23.  
  24. AWR
  25.