erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) (01/18/88)
[This is cross-posted to alt.flame and soc.women because I think both groups care about this sort of thing.] Goodwrench commercial: Stock footage of alligators Louisiana, state of swamps and running around in swamps, egrets alligators. It's places like taking flight from trees in swamp, these that make you glad you long bridge going thru bayous and took your car to Goodwrench. swamps. This is depressing. The state of Louisiana is *not* (contrary to popular belief) one huge swamp; no more than Texas and California are big deserts and New York City is a big place full of drugs and hookers. In the eight years I lived there, I met many people who had just moved to the state. Before moving, friends of theirs had expressed concerns such as "Isn't Louisiana just a big swamp with a bridge through it?" This is the same sort of problem that the women's movement is having, that minority groups are having, that anyone who isn't white, middle-class, and living in a nice suburb and driving a BMW have: The forcing of stereotyped role-models onto a huge cross-section of the american public, affecting not only non-members of the groups, but members of the group, propogandizing both into believing the 'myth' pushed by the ad. -- J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 Just another journalist with too much computing power.| 'Hey, watch me ollie 'Girls play with toys. Real women skate.' --Powell Peralta ad.| this <whump>'
ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) (01/19/88)
In article <299@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes: > >This is depressing. The state of Louisiana is *not* (contrary to >popular belief) one huge swamp; no more than Texas and California are >big deserts and New York City is a big place full of drugs and hookers. >In the eight years I lived there, I met many people who had just moved >to the state. Before moving, friends of theirs had expressed concerns >such as "Isn't Louisiana just a big swamp with a bridge through it?" >This is the same sort of problem that the women's movement is having, >that minority groups are having, that anyone who isn't white, middle-class, >and living in a nice suburb and driving a BMW have: > HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No offend but do you know what the name Louisiana reminds me of? Remeber Live And Let Die? Remember that big Louisiana highway patrol sheriff? He's such a fu*king funny guy, man. And why do you think they chose Louisiana to shoot the speed boat chasing scene? Because they're saying Louisiana IS a big swamp! A wedding can be held where there is water within 100ft on four sides! I still remember that big sheriff goes "my brother got the fastest boat in all Louisiana!" Man, does it really mean in Louisiana a fast boat is more valuable and practical that a Porsche? No offends, ya know, just joking. Can't help it! I don't even think Venus is a swamp. Ya know?8-) Fai Lau SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland) UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDU
rlw@philabs.Philips.Com (Richard Wexelblat) (01/19/88)
In article <299@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes: >This is depressing. The state of Louisiana is *not* (contrary to >popular belief) one huge swamp; no more than Texas and California are >big deserts and New York City is a big place full of drugs and hookers. NYC? Is so! -- --Dick Wexelblat {uunet|ihnp4|decvax}!philabs!rlw rlw@philabs.philips.com
erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) (02/02/88)
In article <7910@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) writes: | HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No offend but do you know what the name | Louisiana reminds me of? Remeber Live And Let Die? Remember that Yes I do, I like that movie. It gives a pretty decent representation of New Orleans in the early 70s, but that's about it. | big Louisiana highway patrol sheriff? He's such a fu*king funny Yeah.. He lived near me, I think. | guy, man. And why do you think they chose Louisiana to shoot | the speed boat chasing scene? Because they're saying Louisiana | IS a big swamp! A wedding can be held where there is water | within 100ft on four sides! I still remember that big sheriff | goes "my brother got the fastest boat in all Louisiana!" | Man, does it really mean in Louisiana a fast boat is more | valuable and practical that a Porsche? Not really. There's not too many places *in* Louisiana where a fast boat would be any good. Off the coast, maybe... Or in the middle of the Red or Mississippi Rivers. The best boat (my opinion) would be a big pontoon boat, or a swamp-skimmer. (Flat-boat with a big fan on the back.) | No offends, ya know, just joking. Can't help it! | I don't even think Venus is a swamp. Ya know?8-) | | Fai Lau | SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland) | UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau | BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDU No offense taken, but that's where most people are wrong. Only the southern 1/4 or so of La. has anything approaching swampland. Lousiana is shaped like a boot, and only the 'sole' and 'toe' of the boot have swampland. I lived in wonderous Leesville, and the only thing we had that approached a swamp were some wide, slow moving creeks. -- J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 Just another journalist with too much computing power.| 'Hey, watch me ollie 'Girls play with toys. Real women skate.' --Powell Peralta ad.| this <whump>'