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"|~34|_|_-< 3|_i+3 />00/>Z"
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Only Half-Proudly Presents:
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RED-3-5.TXT aka
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"Them Damn Mentos! 2: A Quick Follow-Up"
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by: Black Francis
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While flipping through the December 1st edition of the Philadelphia Daily
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News, I came across a small article located next to the nights tv highlights
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that really suprised me. It was about Mentos commercials. I found this odd
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because about three or four days earlier, I had just finished my ReD article
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about the same subject, and I thought would serve as a nice follow-up to
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RED-003, my article on Mentos commercials, for more than one reason. Not only
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did it deal with the mystifying Mentos commercials, but it deals with us
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computer geeks and such computer-geekesque topics like America Online and the
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Internet. Here it is:
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Manic for Mentos!
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Apparently we're not the only viewers who are scratching our foreheads
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trying to understand those surreal commercials for Mentos, the mint candy
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chews.
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On America Online, a bulletin board has been created for anyone intereted
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in venting about the vexing Dutch ads. None of them makes any sense,
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particularly the commercial that features a teen-ager pretending he's a
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mannequin in order to escape from a middle-aged woman.
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About 250 Internet surfers have asked one another why the lady is chasing
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the kid; have pointed out a guest star on "Baywatch" <Baywatch? These people
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really give us a bad name> held up a pack of Mentos so that the label was
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prominently displayed; and have even theorized that there is a connection
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between "The X-Files," possibly that the disc-shaped Euro-sweets were really
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UFOs.
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We think the on-line user who calls him or herself Djani <bahaha> put it
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best put it best by suggesting that Mentos is an abbreviation for More Extra-
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Terrestrial Nerds Talk on Saturdays.
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