From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_50 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-07 11:24:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1047043964.776224@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <87isuvw9tb.fsf@inf.enst.fr> <1047052877.215272@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:24:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.157.181.205 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1047065062 141.157.181.205 (Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:24:22 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:24:22 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35046 Date: 2003-03-07T19:24:22+00:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:1047052877.215272@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... > Stanley R. Allen wrote: > > Cf, "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard. > > Wasn't he the "naked woman in the ice cubes" guy? You're thinking of Wilson Bryan Keyes. He's the one who contends that every Ritz cracker has the word 'Sex' etched on it 24 times. Mr. Keyes also contends that Howard Johnson's arrange their fried clams to suggest a subliminal orgy. Also, Playboy centerfolds have hidden sexual images that enhance their popularity. (You mean their popularity is not due to their EXPLICIT sexuality?) Wilson Keyes did generate some serious discussion, but nowadays he is taken even less seriously than Vance Packard.