Lkeller said:It's amazing how long advertising sticks in our minds. With the news yesterday that Citigroup may be buying Smith-Barney, the first thing that popped into my head was that old John Houseman ad campaign. I must have somehow missed his McD's commercial, but I imagine it went something like this:
Give yourself a break today, and get a Big Mac. You earhhhhhnnneed it!
I found one of the Smith-Barney spots on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLjj9_GJwI
A joke during the time Houseman's McD spot ran:
"At McDonald's they make food the old fashioned way. They burn it."