Fwd: Re: If It's A Gift-giving Observance, Here Comes theInternational Star Register

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

Something similar to that is a commercial for a sexual performance
nostrum that includes the phrase: "based on a concept that won the 
Nobel Prize for medicine."  That would apply if it's in the form of
a pill you swallow!  By the way, I just applied a concept that has
won the Nobel Prize for Literature, or History: quoting.
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DATE: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:12:45
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>
Cc:boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<<On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:15:31 -0400, SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com> said:

> newscasts.  I've always wondered...what is the significance of the phrase 
> to the effect "your star will be recorded in book form at the US copyright 
> office"?  Sounds like some CYA language.

It's a truthful way of saying something that is absolutely meaningless
but makes their ``service'' sound more legitimate.  (Similar to all
the patent nostrums which claim ``helps support normal XYZ function'',
which for all values of XYZ is also true of sugar pills.)





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