On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Dan Becker wrote:
> I think it's the TV commercials make them think that is how the luxury
> sedans are supposed to be driven. It wears them out faster and you have to
> replace it sooner. Just like they show a big fat long blob of toothpaste
> on the brush when a little dab'l do ya. And how about those slathered up
> "great balls of cuuuum-fort" when your whiskers are only a micro nanometer
> long?
My habits were developed partly in reaction to that. My wife, seeing me
apply the "little dab" to the toothbrush, complains that I use toothpaste
as if it cost $50 an ounce.
Larry Kestenbaum