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This Keds headline may not make sense any more, but it was a clever way to mock rebok’s tagline at the time, “Reeboks Let U.B.U.” (which was attention-grabbing, only because it may have been one of the dumbest advertising campaigns ever)…
Background on this campaign from Wikipedia: Shots of elderly Georgian farmers were interspersed with an off-camera announcer intoning, “In Soviet Georgia, where they eat a lot of yogurt, a lot of people live past 100.” Each shot had a caption at the bottom, which would tell the audience the farmer’s name and his or […]