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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

282.0. "disgusted with LJ's" by NEURON::ROBSON (News item from the Banzia Institute) Fri Nov 03 1989 11:04

    Has anyone else seen (and is appalled as I am) the Long John Silvers
    commercial that has a person talking to a pirate type guy and at
    the end he is given what sure appears to be a stuffed Nanday Conure?
    
    Mark
    
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282.1Yuk!CSC32::K_WORKMANHSC/SHADOW Tech Leader 522-4990Sat Nov 04 1989 10:0117
    Mark,
    
    I just saw the commercial.  You think that is a real live (dead)
    stuffed Nanday?  It certainly looks real enough.  I can't tell.
    
    Did you see the LAND OF PARROTS on PBS?  There was a section
    on the grass parakeets where the guy pulled from a drawer
    all these stuffed specimins.  I guess for the sake of classification
    it may be exceptable, but NOT for a commercial.  
    
    Lets just hope he didn't end up that way BECAUSE of this commercial!
    
    Karen
    
    PS:  Jerry's Leadbeater WON everything at the Denver show again!
         Grrrrrrrr
       
282.2TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL!SVCRUS::BUCCIERIWed Nov 08 1989 09:139
    Make your feelings known!  If you see something that is offensive
    to you, write a letter to the advertising agency or the manufacturer
    of the product itself.  You will be surprised at how much attention
    is paid to this type of communication.  Once you find out where
    to write, make the address public to allow others to do the same.
    Bad press is something nobody wants and most companies will do
    something about your complaint.  It works for me every time.
    
    Jim Buccieri