[thechat] King Preaches Abstinence to Parading Maidens

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sat Sep 14 05:27:00 CDT 2002


On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Andy Warwick wrote:

> As the late, great comedian Bill Hicks once said...
>
> "American law defines pornography as images with no artistic merit designed
> to encourage sexual thought; sounds like every advert on TV to me."
>
> You can imagine what he believed the Coke corporation *really* want their
> adverts to look like...

If anything sells more Coke (including long-term impacts on the brand
reputation), they'd do it if they could.

And if you were a shareholder, you'd demand that too.

Cheers
Martin

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