acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (03/28/84)
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Somewhere (a while ago) I read that home taping (of records, etc.) is okay
for PRIVATE USE ONLY. For example, if I buy a record and tape it to use
in my car, it's okay because I'm not passing the tape on to anyone else.
(That is one of the reasons why the British record industry is collapsing--
people are trading albums for recording purposes.) Do you know of any
turntables that are suitable for use inside the car (something reasonable,
*not* including the Close 'n' Play (tm)!)?
Somewhere on the Net, somebody mentioned the tie between "He's So Fine" and
"My Sweet Lord". How about that guy in Illinois that claimed that the Bee Gees
used 4 mesaures of his song for their hit "How Deep Is Your Love"? It's
getting to the point where using A=440 at any point in a song will be illegal!
And here's one for all you Clara Peller fans out there:
Last week, I saw on the local news that some small hamburger chain in the
Milwaukee area (I believe the name was Suburpia) had used the phrase (dare I
repeat it?) "Where's the beef?" (hereafter referred to as WTB) in their
advertisements used about 5 years ago. They showed the original commercial,
and it showed a large face of a clown that delivered the burger on its
tongue. Damn, that burger looked just like the one at the "Home of the Big
Bun"! The customer, a man about 45, complained: "Is that all their is?
...? WTB? WTB?" The advertising company for Wendy's claimed that their
ad was original. A lawsuit may soon follow. Remember, you heard it
here first!
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ARPA, CSnet: acsgjjp.buffalo@rand-relayjohnnyr@ihuxa.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) (03/29/84)
Just to nitpick a little, the Suburpia chain is a fast sub
sandwich outfit. Their advertising strategy was to contrast
Fast-grease hamburgers (WTB) with their filled-to-overflowing
submarine sandwich.
John Rosenberg
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