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That sounds like a really cute ad; I'll have to look for it!

The first place I'd look for other ads in the series would be older issues
of Smithsonian, either at home or in the library.

Good luck!
Jill

      I'm also gonna drop by the package store and see if Schmirnoff is
    offering the series somewhere/somehow...
    
    JM

      By the way...for those who don't normally see "Smithsonian"
    magazine....the same ad is also in this week's issue of NEWSWEEK....
    
    JM

    
    	John....after reading your note about this ad I sent a message
    	out to my group asking if anyone got Smithsonian and if so,
    	if I could have the ad.....I just *have* to see this!
    

    John -
    
    I subscribe to Smithsonian also and it just so happens I have the
    December issue in the office.  Page 103 has #6 in the series.  Not
    quite as cute as Bruno & the girls.
    
    T
    

       Newsweek's probably a lot easier to find...
    
       What I'd like to know is WHERE they found these Cats! What a group
    of little charmers!! Those "pixie" expressions are the cutest...
    
      John Mc

    
    
    	I now have "Bruno and the girls" hanging in my office.
    	It's so *cute*!!
    
    	Thanks for letting us know about it John!
    
    	JJ
    

I was at a friend's house last night, and noticed a Smithsonian magazine.  I
checked the cover, and it said January!  I looked through the whole thing
before realizing it was January 1990!!

sometimes I wonder...sigh...

Jill

      
     The February 10th issue of "Time" magazine carries the "Bruno & the
    Girls" ad on Page 38....(Eastern U.S. Edition anyway...)
    
     JM

    Would someone send me a copy of the pic? I am in the UK and my mail
    stop is REO2 FM/9
    
    Thanks!
    
    
    Lisa Pavey.
    

    If you call Smirnoff at 203-231-5900 and ask for the public relations
    department, they will send you a picture and later a poster of the
    ad. The woman told me that the cats spots were air-brushed.

    I don't suppose anyone could call Smirnoff and get me a picture/poster?
    
    Pretty please ?!?!?!?!??!??  ;-)
    
    
    Lisa (in the UK).

Lisa,

I just called and had them send me two.  Will send you one of them.

Holly

    Great! Thanks Holly!!
    
    I should be able to paper my house with them at this rate ;-)
    
    
    Lisa.
    

      I called too...and because I asked nicely the lady who took my call
    is sending me not only "Bruno & the Girls", but the entire series!!
      I dunno what the others are, but if "Bruno & the Girls" is any
    indication they gotta be great...
    
      John McD

    
    
    	Oooh, do share them with us when you get them John!  =)
    

    I too called. The women was very nice. I asked if there was any
    possibily I could possibly get two copies of Bruno and the girls
    and she said no problem.  She also told me she would put me on
    the mailing list for two poster size ads which will be ready in
    March.
    
    Nice people, awful Vodka..!
    
    Barbara

    Just found out that it is on the back of the new issue of TV GUIDE.  I
    can't wait to get home and see it!  (I'll also be calling in soon.)
    
    K.C.

    I saw it in Time magazine last night!!  Cute!
    

    Can someone direct me to the note with the "Bruno & the
    girls" phone # & info?
    
    thx-
    
    Lynne

    try .11
    

    I tried the number in reply .11 and was told to call 203.678.6669 and
    ask for Leanne Carroll(?).  She wasn't in but someone else that was new
    in that department said she'd send along Bruno and the girls.  She
    mentioned that it was part of a series but she hadn't seen the other
    pictures.  She said one was Linda's Wedding, another was something
    Chinese, and another was of a black Lab Retriever.  Sounds like they do
    fun things with their art department.  :^)

    When I called, I did get Leanne Carroll.  What a wonderful
    person she was!  So bubbly, (as was the other person I talked to!)
    And lively....she joked with me, and told me about some of
    the series...
    
    L-

For those of you who love "Bruno and the Girls", you may be interested to know 
that now there's a t-shirt with that exact same picture on it!  I saw it in 
the Parragon mailorder catalog and the price is $16.95.  It's not an 
advertisement for Smirnoff, but it's the same picture that appears in one of
Smirnoff's Bruno and the Girls ads.  It's the one with the Dalmatian dog 
surrounded by a dozen or so "Dalmatian cats". 

If anyone would like more information on this, please let me know and I'll bring
my catalog in.

Meredith
 

    Yes!  I would like more information.  Could you please post ordering
    info?  (i.e. order number, 800 phone number, etc.)
    
    Thanks,
    Michelle

    ME TOO! ME TOO! I want one! Please post the ordering info and address
    or an 800 phone number! 
    
    Thanks!
    
    Y

Here is the ordering information for the Dalmatian Cats t-shirt from Paragon:

The Paragon
89 Tom Harvey Road
Westerly, RI  02891
800-343-3095
401-596-0134

Item #8256C, size Medium (38-40), Large (42-44), and Extra-Large (46-48)
The saying on the t-shirt says "In a World Full of Copycats Be an Original".
It's really adorable, I guess I better get out my Visa card... ;-)

I found the Bruno photo via anonymous FTP at:

wuarchive.wustl.edu

at /graphics/gif/d/dalmation.

I got the BRUNO GIF file in .-1 over internet, and have placed it in

FPTVX1::CE$PUBLIC:BRUNO.GIF

Plese use "SPOOL COPY" from VMS systems if you have it.  For PCs, you need
access to a PATHWORKS server and a GIF viewer on your PC.  For those with
PCs at home, I might be convinced to put it on a floppy or two and send
interoffice....if we create a mail chain so I'm not inundated.

Techie Notes:

Here's how I got the file:

Step 1.  Send mail to the Internet FTP gateway with all the exact right
commands in it.  The command file I used is:
	$ mail
	send
	decwrl::"ftpmail"

	(subject) FPT request of 7/15
	reply [email protected]
	connect wuarchive.wustl.edu anonymous abrams
	chdir /graphics/gif/d
	binary
	uuencode
	get dalmation
	quit
	$ exit

Step 2.  If Step 1 succeeds, a day or two later you have the file waiting
in VMSmail, but, it's uuencoded (to make a binary file mailable) and it's
broken into four mail messages.  EXTRACT/NOHEAD each file and then recon-
struct in the right order with a text editor.

Step 3.  Copy the file to a UNIX system and run uudecode.
	$ uudecode file
which creates the file "ftpmail", which I renamed bruno.gif .

Step 4. Copy back to a VMS system, and run CONVERT_FIXED_512.EXE which
I got from the network somewhere.  It converts a UNIX "Stream_LF" file
to a FIXED 512-byte formatted file suitable for PC use.

Step 5.  Copy to a directory on my PATHWORKS server.  

Step 6.  On my PC, run a GIF viewer...and it worked!  Rather surprising
after all these conversions!




Klaus, Katrina, Phantom, Nutmeg, Coconut, Bailey, Georgina, Bosco, 
diane and i (bill)

    A late entry here - but I've had the poster for about a year(?)
    I don't know - it's always been in my office.  I found it in
    a Paperama in Burlington, MA - it's about 1' x 2" long - people
    love it...."how'd they do that????" - referring to the dalmation
    cats!
    
    C.