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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, September 17, 2009

I lost the link long ago, but this was real.

JFK shot!!
FREE TIRE ROTATION!!!!!

By Anonymous, at 6:20 PM
Freedom Fry's!!!! Oh yeah the French weren't made fun of until 2003

By Anonymous, at 7:18 PM
On the bright side, I think this was someone's horrible local decision.

By mikevotes, at 9:38 PM
I've never really grasped it until this year but A LOT of Americans are extremely sentimental and would think nothing of using this coupon thinking that they WERE making a difference.

I think savants and a few college educated folks don't 'get' how superstitious, irrational and down right crazy a large section of the population, I think Marx called them the "lumpen proletariat", are simple-minded and one-dimensional.

Some of them are good but I've found a large segment of them to be some what dangerous since they have zero coping skills and the world is a very scary place.

These coupons fit into that simple, sentimental mind-set.

By Anonymous, at 10:17 PM
That's a great comment. I really have nothing to add. I agree.

(Plus, a really good incidental point. I was just looking at this as a "How could Burger King do it?". I never thought about the people who actually turned the coupon in.)

By mikevotes, at 7:28 AM