Burger King Mask Article

http://slate.msn.com/id/2128569/

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Interesting, though not surprising. If any kids dressed up as frickin' Frikadelle Könige show up at my door on Halloween, I think I'll hand them lumps of raw ground meat and tell 'em to have it their way.

[Just kidding, folks -- I know that Halloween is now a sacred secular holiday. And I hope I haven't offended anyone's secular sensibilities. And for referring to Halloween as a secular holiday I also feel compelled to apologise to all you Wiccans out there. Please don't turn me into a newt.]

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I see that ESPN is doing their bit to help out the current BK ad-campaign. On NFL Countdown this week they had a tongue-in-cheek segment with Kenny Mayne on the King as football player with interviews of said king, who responded in German (and it was actually grammatically correct German, not just tv-pseudo-German).

ESPN's use of that appalling 'song' originally made (so far as I know) for the Coors ads with the tawdry-looking twins (Coors and football campaign from a couple of years back) seems to me to constitute another instance of commercial seepage into the allegedly non-commercial segment of their football programming.

What is the world coming to?...


Al Tossint, l'êsse èst plin.
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Antonius wrote:What is the world coming to?...

Anything for a $ (remember the old Steve Martin bit?)