Your Generation got Old!
2004-12-09 21:40:53.292172+01 by
petronius
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My youth finally died this afternoon. The TV in the coffee room at work was on CNN, and an ad for E-Trade online stock brokerage came on, asking if you wanted a broker who gave you the service you deserved. It was a pretty standard message, only the music in the background was Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane belting out "Revolution". I suspect if they had realized back in 1967 what would have happened to their music they would have leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge.
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#Comment Re: made: 2004-12-10 22:01:10.136823+01 by:
TheSHAD0W
There was another ad for a broker, probably also for E-Trade, that used Ram Jam's song "Black Betty". Somehow I suspect none of E-Trade's execs realized which song the ad people had chosen...
#Comment Re: made: 2004-12-13 05:09:42.130748+01 by:
concept14
My youth is scheduled to die next year, on the 40th anniversary of the first Star Trek pilot.
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