Nineteen Eighty-... Three?

[bill_sheehan]

On this date in 1983, history was made.  Pity no one was awake to see it.

The most famous single commercial ever shown was Apple’s 1984 ad introducing the new Macintosh. In between the carnage of the Los Angeles Raiders stomping all over the Washington Redskins, many products, including computers, were advertised.  Alan Alda, the sensitive new-

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[captainsblog]

And now you know... the rest of the story.

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(Why anyone would buy such a high-end stereo to listen to a crappy AM radio signal, I never did figure out....)

[bill_sheehan]

Goooood ... Day!

[liddle_oldman]

Of course, they didn't show the guards clubbing the runner bloody and unconscious, or her quick and unpublished execution, or the re-education of the hapless proles who witnessed the brief and futile act of defiance...

[bill_sheehan]

Not to mention the anonymous denunciation of crypto-Goldstein Professor Liddle-Oldman for his unregenerate plus ungood Big Brother-wise thoughtcrimes...

(There's a bar in Orient Heights that we pass every day called the Victory Pub. Every day I blink back the same mental image: the acrid pong of Parson's sweat, the spongy pinkish cubes in the grey stew, and the sharp metallic tang of Victory Gin served in a handleless teacup.)