Big Trunk: One Smart Pachyderm
Give That Man A Cigar!(Note: I wrote and attempted to post this last night, but Blogger's server is still buggy.)
Power Line's John Hinderaker (neé Hindrocket) wonders what exactly Time is trying to say with their ad campaign: "If you want to know why American soldiers are defeated and demoralized, read Time."
Shockingly, I came to the rag's defense in an e-mail reply, opining that the ad wasn't so much an indictment of the war but as a teaser for that particular soldier's story, which I admitted wanting to know about just on the basis of the ad. If that weren't enough, I chided Hindrocket's culture shock a little, then gently mocked their shiny new layout as looking too much like Instapundit's.
And believe it or not . . . they wrote me back! Well, at least Scott Johnson (neé Big Trunk) did:
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 06:16:23 -0500
From: Scott Johnson
To: marchandchronicles-at-yahoo.com
Subject: Re: "Know Why" . . . benign explanation?
>Mr. Marchand, thanks for your thoughtful message. I absolutely love the
>name of your site.
Well . . . thanks. I came up with it all by myself.
I presume he gets the reference. I feel like I should send him a cigar or something.
What about the rest of you? I promise it's not really that obscure. You don't have to be Ken Jennings to put it together. E-mail me at marchandchronicles-at-yahoo.com and maybe I'll send you a cigar, too.
posted by Marsh @ 3:09 AM
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