I see this as a complete vindication for Tom Chandler and the Trout Underground. I’ve teased him unmercifully about “scantily clad strumpet” posts being his undoing, he counters with the “… new advertising paradigm you (expletive) Meathead…”
I’m not surprised, he’s a talented writer known for elegant prose and sloppy hot dogs, I’m merely the dog that whines at his feet hoping he’ll let me crap sometime this century.
For them as has fished for a couple decades, Aberchrombie & Fitch used to be a real tackle store, and before its current reincarnation the old San Francisco store had four floors of gear; two for clothing, 1 for tackle, and 1 for guns.
I remember smashing the Piggy Bank when I heard about the “going out of business sale” – and still own the Hardy Perfect I got after “coldcocking” Grandma, wrenching the reel from her fingers, and applying both boots to her.
Don’t look aghast, that reel was only forty bucks, at today’s prices – you would’ve shot the old gal.
Calling someone “Mr. Abercrombie & Fitch” used to mean he was attired in the finest of outdoor clothing and a conspicuous overconsumer, now it appears the meaning is something vastly different.
Police confiscated two display photos of scantily clad men and a woman from an Abercrombie & Fitch store and cited the manager on a misdemeanor obscenity charge, authorities said.
Based on the above, Tom’s correct – the new advertising paradigm appears to be gathering momentum, “partially clad” sells like hot cakes and us “wannabe’s” are just that. I don’t dare ask Tom who he’s been writing copy for – anyone wanna guess?
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If you’d really learned this lesson, you would have scoured the Internet for one of those “bikini models holding a sign that says whatever you want it to” sites and posted it here instead of the cruise missiles. I’m just saying is all.