Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Super Bowl

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> Some of the ads were fun or funny.  I really don't like the way they use 
> animals in beer ads.  It is obvious that this attracts the attention of 
> children and shows them that beer is a very highly-valued commodity, the 
> ads that include humans are designed to show that normal young men are 
> obsessed with beer -- they'll do anything to get beer.  We're supposed 
> to lighten up and just laugh it off, but they are doing this for a 
> reason and it is working, so it really isn't all that funny.  They get 
> teenage boys to think that they must want beer in order to be cool with 
> their friends.
>
> Mike


With thinking like that, you should consider joining up with the Family 
Research Council http://www.frc.org. :-)

(That is, of course I agree with you, but your thinking comes off as 
surprisingly like that of a social conservative!)

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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