Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA23065 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 10 May 2000 22:44:07 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:38:54 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: a memetic experiment- an eIe opener To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3919D6EE.A905B3BC@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-PBI-NC404 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: ja,en References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31CEB166@inchna.stir.ac.uk> <39191822.E56349FC@mediaone.net> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Chuck,
> > A more recent example would be the Budweiser ad with the frogs- Very
> > memorable, but did it really make people buy more Budweiser? Or, more
> > specifically, did it make people who don't drink, indeed have never drunk,
> > Budweiser, drink it?
> >
>
> Again - there is no way to know without following people around. But given that
> the frogs were aimed at children, and the children got a big kick out of them
Well, the very spectacle of drunkards throwing frogs at poor,
defenseless children, who were then kicked by the frogs, is
enough to drive one to drink, I must say. Disgraceful!
Bill
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