[lbo-talk] Bumvertising

Tom Walker timework at telus.net
Wed Sep 14 07:30:48 PDT 2005


John Norem wrote, * *>A new means of advertising in Seattle.

> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/240452_bumvertising13.html

This is nothing new.

"And who is so obviously, so notoriously poor as this creature of the two signs, this perambulating pack­horse of an advertisement, this hopeless, decayed crea­ture who, if he have but life enough to walk, will do very well as an invitation to buy.

"He is such a biting commentary on life, in one sense, such a coarse, shabby jest in another, that we cannot help but think on him and the conditions which produce him." -- Theodore Dreiser, The Sandwich man

The Sandwichman



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