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From: scwolfe@ix.netcom.com(Steven Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Wanted:Bull-dog???? pic ascii
Date: 1996/07/09
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In <+8jTwFDmnZ4xEwJ1@xemu.demon.co.uk> Dave Bird---St Hippo of
Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk> writes: 
>
>In article <4rrlqb$38o@news.cloud9.net>, Tansal <tansal@escape.com>
>writes
>>>>OOH AAH!!!  RED DOG!!!!!
>>>>YOU ARE YOUR OWN DOG!!!!
>>>>
>>> Is this a song or something?  I did a bulldog sig for
>>
>>Yes.  John Lennon wrote a song called "Hey Bulldog" which was
>>performed by the Beatles on the Yellow Submarine album.  Great song,
>>btw.
>
>"You can talk to me,  you can   talk to  mee-ee
> if your're lonely you can talk to me (dod dom da dom-dom-dom...)"
>
>Yes, I know that song.  But I don't remember the words
> "ooh ah! red dog! you are your own dog" anywhere in it.
>
>Is that a DIFFERENT song?
>
>
>
>Also, calling it a "red dog" is new on me: this is not a Brit
>expression, it is apparently an American/Canadian expression.
>That's why I thought perhaps "Red Dog..." was from an AMERICAN song.
>

I don't know whether this was mentioned before, but Red Dog is a brand
of beer, and in the TV commercials for the beer, their 'mascot' is a
red bulldog.  "OOH AAH!  RED DOG!" is the jingle from the commercial,
and "YOU ARE YOUR OWN DOG!", or something to that effect, is the
slogan.  I don't know whether that comes from a song or poem or
something, but several commercials were made using that red dog,
basically suggesting that nothing bothers him, he's cooler than the
Fonz, and that he marches to the beat of a different drummer.  I never
see how that relates to beer, but later they made a commercial in which
they made it clear that the DOG is red, not the beer.  Looking at what
I just wrote, it makes me think that I watch WAY too much TV.

-DAN Wolfe
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scwolfe@ix.netcom.com

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(|-|)   <- is this a good bulldog?  I just doodled it while I was 
            proofreading my message.  My only other experience in ASCII
            art is that UN logo which nobody seems to care about...