RIP, Mr. vacuum cleaner...

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Mar 08 1999 - 21:41:46 MST


Short irrelevant story follows:
When I was a small boy a song came on the radio which went

"Heres to you, Joe DiMaggio,
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you..."

I was baffled, having never heard of him. Not long afterwards,
a TV commercial had a guy selling vacuum cleaners:

Hi. Im Joe DiMaggio. Brand x vacuum cleaners yakkity yak
and bla bla.

Not understanding celebrity endorsements at the time, I was
even more baffled. Why would a lonely nation look to the
vacuum cleaner guy? {8^D end irrelevant story. spike



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