Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2003/03

From: "Elizabeth Berry" <MarchinCharger88@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] cute names
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:21:25 -0500

Oh!!! My mom watches TV land, I remember seeing that commercial where the
lady finds the hamburger!
Dude, that was THE commercial.
Can you hear me now, good is what our band director says a whole lot.
Thanks for your explaination

Elizabeth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Raibeck" <cactus@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] cute names

> My recollection may not be 100% accurate, but I think I'm at least pretty
> close.
>
> "Where's the beef?" was the catch-phrase for a popular Wendy's (the
hambuer
> chain) advertising campaign that began, I think, in 1984. The campaign was
> built around this little old lady (played by then-unknown Clara Peller).
In
> the add, this little old lady who would go from one hambuger place to
> another, find they served only "wimpy" burgers, and then exclaim in a
rather
> gruff/crotchety voice, "Where's the beef?" Finally (of course!) she wound
up
> at Wendy's and found that there burgers were not wimpy.
>
> For whatever reason that these things happen, this little catch-phrase
> "Where's the beef?" became ingrained in the American peoples'
consciousness,
> and thus forever became a piece of "Americana".
>
> Sadly, Clara Peller died about a year or so later.
>
> Back in the early seventies, the folks who market Alka-Seltzer created
> another such phrase, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing", another
> classic.
>
> Today, an excellent example of this is the "Can you hear me now?" ads that
> some cell company is running. Actually I find this one more annoying than
> cute, and I can't even remember the company's name, so for me, it isn't
> working... :-)
>
> So getting back to "Where's the Beef(er)?"... Arturo said:
>
> > > > >Manny [Arturo's mynah bird, apparently] declares:
> > > > >
> > > > > <<SQuawk>> "Arturo, when you can't remember where you left your
> > > > > clarinet the night before, what will you say?"
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps "Where's the ......"
>
> ... Beefer.
>
> As in "Bb clariner". As in "Where's the beef?"
>
> If you were born in 1988, then you were -4 years old when the Wendy's ad
> campaign came out, so it is understandable that you might not know about
> this. (OK, my initial estimate of -8 was a bit off....)
>
> Does that help? :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Berry" <MarchinCharger88@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 19:14
> Subject: Re: [kl] cute names
>
>
> > I still don't get it. :)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy Raibeck" <cactus@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: 01 March 2003 17:36
> > Subject: Re: [kl] cute names
> >
> >
> > > Wasn't "Where's the Beef?" from back in the early 80's? That makes
> > Elizabeth
> > > what, around -8 years old, give or take? :-)
> > >
> > > (Now "I've fallen!... and I can't get up!!" might be something she
would
> > > remember.)
> > >
> > > That said, I'm not sure what "Where's the Beef?" has to do with
> clarinets.
> > I
> > > was thinking that "Beefer" was just a cutesy take-off on "B flat".
> > >
> > > Andy
>
>
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