Re: “End Of 10” Project

On 2025/6/24 19:2:7, Farley Flud wrote:
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If you actually partake of any of the various media that serve ads
(i.e. tv, radio, whatever else) then you are a despicable human degenerate.

[If you broadly class people as despicable, you might be describable as
despicable ... (-:]>

Aside from the ridiculous highway billboards, which any advanced
society would summarily outlaw, I have not experienced an ad in
any form since I was 16 years old.  (Before then I had no control.)

I _think_ they are illegal in UK anyway; certainly the term "highway
billboard" (or UK equivalent) isn't familiar to me, and if it means
billboards along the edges of highways in rural areas, then no, I've not
experienced them.>

I do, however, remember the following parody I encountered somewhere,
decades ago, which appealed to me:>
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
In fact, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.> (The original poem it was parodying had,
I think, "poem" instead of billboard in the second line - don't know how
it went on though. Googling "never see" will probably find it.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Chuck Berry was once asked what he thought of Elvis Presley and he said,
"He got what he wanted, but he lost what he had." [Quoted by Anne
Widdicombe, in Radio Times 8-14 October 2011.]