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Oh, literally dozens

It's blanketing the airwaves. I'm sure you've seen it more than once despite "watching hardly any television".

We've tried to talk about the techniques of advertising in the past, and I've been struck by your insistence that you can't see any of the techniques I see in advertising. I wonder if your profession as a technical illustrator has you strongly biased toward visual literalism (or perhaps visual literalism predetermined your profession?). I'm not pulling your leg, Tom: There really can be multiple levels of meaning deliberately designed into an image.

Here's a real timewaster, in the grand old Zone tradition:

http://habitablezone.net/RS/LineDanceGoodTime.gif

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