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Old Spice

watch it: 1970s Old Spice commercial

Thu, Feb 03, 2011
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Women love sailors because they smell like Old Spice? Yeaaaah, that’s the ticket…

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Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links

Sun, Nov 28, 2010
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Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…

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watch it: “Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster”

Mon, Oct 25, 2010
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What if Grover were an Old Spice man? He would be the monster your man could smell like.

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Rooney Mara is the American girl with the dragon tattoo; Net neutrality’s swan song; is George Lucas an asshole?; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 22, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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save Paul Rudd; movie apathy; everybody loves ‘Mad Men’; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 01, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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watch it: “New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar”

Mon, Jul 26, 2010
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Pitch perfect parody of The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Old Spice commericals (which I featured recently): (via Galley Cat)

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