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Article #58Re: Bad Driving for Movie Ratings?
From: Leon James
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 00:00
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On Sun, 31 Aug 1997 dresden@star.net wrote:
> My favorite bad driving commercial was the Nissan (Maxima?) ad where the
> 18 wheeler "appears out of nowhere" while the guy is passing an RV.
(snip)
> truck LITERALLY appear out of nowhere! The message...unsafe passing is OK,
> if you get in a jam by being an idiot it's not your fault, as long as
> you've got this car...I looked for a Nissan e-mail address to flame them
> for that ad when it came out, but couldn't find one...I think they've
> pulled it now.
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Good for you! We need to let them know that we care about stuff like
that. First there was Sex and Violence--we got ratings. Now I'm hearing
pressure building up to do it for cigarette smoking being made glamorous
in movies. BD ("Bad Driving " scenes) is next!!
Leon James (aka Dr. Driving)
Visit My Congresional Testimony on Road Rage and Aggressive Drivers
http://www.aloha.net/~dyc/testimony.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105cef,6fb6e0639c2d95e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid105cef,public X-Google-Thread: 1058f1,4b8a09bfb1a6bf55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058f1,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,4b8a09bfb1a6bf55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,4b8a09bfb1a6bf55 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public From: Leon James <leon@hawaii.edu> Subject: Re: Bad Driving for Movie Ratings? Date: 1997/09/04 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970904110024.18700A-100000@uhunix3> X-Deja-AN: 269902626 References: <5t7djc$7hm$1@earth.execpc.com> <33f85605.0@wltss01.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk> <872906618.3032@dejanews.com> <dresden-3108971817410001@bos246p.star.net> X-Sender: leon@uhunix3 Organization: University of Hawaii Newsgroups: phl.transportation,rec.autos.driving,uk.transport,dc.driving