Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Sexual automobiles
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Dec 18 16:57:21 2006
References: <121920060044.21297.458735FE0001B2F500005331221655799602019B020E9B9CD2020106@comcast.net>

She had curls? I never noticed.  :-)

jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote:

>Ahaaa!  I was so naive.... Funny thing ...Years later when I was a college 
>student a book by Wilson Brian Key "Subliminal Seduction" was 
>simultaneously recommended reading for both Marketing and Psychology. This 
>is the guy that claimed all successful advertising was based on subliminal 
>sexual messages within the content of the advertisement...The example that 
>I remember was the Farrah Fawcett poster....Several of her curls were air 
>brushed to spell out "SEX". I don't think Farrah needed any extra help at 
>the time....
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
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>>On Dec 18, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Jon wrote:
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>>>I was still in my single digit years when the Edsel made it's debut  
>>>and even with my limited aesthetic development I knew it was a  
>>>mighty ugly car..What were Ford engineers thinking?  Funny thing  
>>>though.....years later BMW recaptured the "Horse Collar Grill"
>>>      
>>>
>>The car designers of the 50s and 60s were not ashamed to display  
>>obvious sexual symbols on their automobiles. The grill of the Edsel  
>>was likened to an open vagina while the Jaguar E Type looked like a  
>>penis on wheels. Their mating probably produced the Ford Mustang.
>>
>>Larry Z
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