Posted on 10/13/2001 9:29:03 AM PDT by ScholarWarrior
This is a request to those creative types with high quality digital video and the time to shoot it to do the following:
In the 1950s John Cameron Swayze was a respected talking head who did commercials for Timex -- old folks will remember it. Here's the picture::
Queue Afghanistan, bombs rumbling in the distance, anti aircraft responds. Pan to JCS look-alike.:
JCS: "This is John Cameron Swayze reporting near Kandahar with the US Army Special Forces for the Camel News Caravan. We're here for another test of the Timex Battlefield Watch. About 300 meters to the south is a band of Taliban fighters". (pan to the rubble and scurrying towelheads into a cave). :
"Let's try it, shall we? "(switch to the overhead US Navy infrared of the incoming missile - large explosion sounds):
"Well, how did we do?" - He walks to the rock pile with an arm sticking out of it, Timex watch of source.:
"Timex -- it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. More Americans buy Timex -- than any other watch!"
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