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Pope John Peeps II
11/07/08

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You know I'm halfway through my first reading of McLuhan's Understanding Media. He goes into the thought that russia and the US are fundamentally different cultures, with russia having a rich oral tradition, and being more suited to participatory media, and the US being a highly visual country, more suited to direct impersonal information.
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Tremonius
11/07/08

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Remember reading in Atlas Shrugged how the great blight of Daffy's crosscountry trips was the utter and horrible lack of billboards? This was a major theme of hers, that and sleeping your way up the ladder. But just why should you remember reading Atlas Shrugged? If you did, you don't, and if you didn't, you have much better memories. That's all.
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skahammer
11/07/08

@Tremonius: It's not really in one of the award-winning genres, but this comment is pretty damned awesome nevertheless.
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Iceland Spar
11/07/08

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Illegal advertising isn't really vandalism is it? I would have thought that vandalism involved putting your message on someone else's property without their permission and that illegal advertising would involve a zoning violation by using your own property in a manner beyond that permitted by the zoning laws.
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Cheap Shot
11/07/08

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Nobody takes Dr.Zizmor's ads away from us!
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Iceland Spar
11/07/08

@Cheap Shot: Or 1-800-INNOCENT; 1-800-IMMIGRATION OR 1-800-DIVORCE. Oh illegal ads, without you, I would be stuck in jail while still trapped in a loveless marriage to an undocumented worker.
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BadUncle
11/07/08

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Oh, Hamilton, you cranky old man. I suppose you have South of the Border deprive us of the wisdom of Pedro, as well?
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BookishLookish
11/07/08

@BadUncle: I would pay good money to bring the Burma Shave billboards back.
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BadUncle
11/07/08

@BookishLookish: Modernized, though, as Myanmar Manscaping?
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BookishLookish
11/07/08

@BadUncle: Natch.
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