Bad Product Placement
Feb. 8th, 2004 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurOkay, I'm used to the idea that every sporting event has a name-brand sponsor these days. But somehow, I don't think "The Hershey Kisses 300" quite projects the macho image that NASCAR usually strives for...
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Date: 2004-02-08 02:56 pm (UTC)But just think, if it were to take place on Feb. 14, all those guys could pretend (to their SOs) it was romantic...
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Date: 2004-02-08 04:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, "The Hershe Kisses 300" sounds much more like a dessert than a floorwax. I mean, a sporting event. If you can call driving cars "sport," that is....
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Date: 2004-02-08 04:58 pm (UTC)This is a discussion we don't want to have.
Liam
Gearhead
(I was a sports writer, they sent me to the track, it must be a sport.)
I love the smell of motor oil in the morning. It smells like victory.
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Date: 2004-02-08 05:15 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-08 05:21 pm (UTC)One of the things you learn in sports writing is to never debate whether (auto racing, cheerleading, chess, etc., etc.,) is a sport or not.
Liam
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Date: 2004-02-08 05:25 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-09 12:24 am (UTC)No no no... that's diesel fumes... and the sound of tracks on pavement... *sappy sigh* if only they let women drive tanks...
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Date: 2004-02-08 05:10 pm (UTC)Note, by the way, they don't race on Mother's Day.
(Nataliia just saw a Hershey's Kiss 500 commercial, just now, and started laughing).
Liam