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Men! Guys! Fellas! Boys! Males!
When I was a kid, we used to get the weekly TV listing with the Sunday paper and for some reason, I used to read all the ads, very closely. It was the same compulsion that makes you read the cereal box in the morning. I bet there's a word for it in German. ANYWAY, there was an ad on the back cover of the TV listings that I will never forget. It was for one of those cheapie jewelry stores, like the ones at the mall where you can get a diamond engagement ring for $399.99 and they offer convenient in-house financing. Well, this particular ad came out sometime around father's day, which I guess is sometime around graduation time because the ad was for men's jewelry and written at the bottom, in a jaunty italic, was "Great for Dads, Lads and Grads!" I will never, as long as I live, forget this. It is embedded in my mind as surely as my mother's maiden name. I wonder what vital piece of information I'm NOT retaining because I have to make room for dads, lads and grads. Anyway, the point is that these cards are - yup - Great for Dads, Lads and Grads! |