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May 23, 2007
Tortilla Chip Nationalism
This Jay Leno commercial boldly uses the massive insecurity of Americans in the late 80s/early 90s about losing the technology war to the Japanese to sell a new flavor of tortilla chips.
These days, of course, America exports all crunch-related labor overseas. And computers can no longer speak in Brooklyn-accents.
Posted by marxy at May 23, 2007 12:19 PM
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So what was the computer/bio-interface there that alowed that room of Apple IIes to understand Jay's human sense of taste? Unless...Jay is a droid!
Guess that explains how funny he is.
(For any other droids out there who don't compute sarcasm: He is not funny.)
Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 23, 2007 2:04 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/
you won't find a movie like this coming out of japan let me tell you
Posted by: john at May 25, 2007 3:42 AM
Hahah! Their technology might be superior to ours, but at least we still have the crunch!
Posted by: Marcus at May 25, 2007 7:35 AM
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