Bell Canada's new campaign

[Mike McManus]

Paging Ellen Evans...

http://www.bell.ca/

[ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis]

>[mike]
> Paging Ellen Evans...

nothing against jeeves, but I'm devastated that they've fired Frank
and Gordon, their cartoon spoke-beavers. best corporate mascots for
years.

here they are in geek mode:
http://compsci.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/bell_beaver_engineers.png

ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis

[Ellen Evans]

In article <0eb37d68-75c8-471b...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis <chris....@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>[mike]
>> Paging Ellen Evans...

Okay, I see they're using my "er", but I don't get the, uh, meaningful
context. What's the point?

>nothing against jeeves, but I'm devastated that they've fired Frank
>and Gordon, their cartoon spoke-beavers. best corporate mascots for
>years.

Uh, no comment.
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Ellen Evans If my life wasn't funny, it would
je...@panix.com just be true, and that's unacceptable.
Carrie Fisher

[Mike McManus]

Ellen Evans wrote:
> In article <0eb37d68-75c8-471b...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
> ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis <chris....@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> [mike]
>>> Paging Ellen Evans...
>
> Okay, I see they're using my "er", but I don't get the, uh, meaningful
> context. What's the point?

I haven't figured it out eith*er*. ;-)

>> nothing against jeeves, but I'm devastated that they've fired Frank
>> and Gordon, their cartoon spoke-beavers. best corporate mascots for
>> years.
>
> Uh, no comment.

Reminds me of the "Beaver Stack" on Stephanie Miller's radio show. You
probably don't want to know.

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Mike McManus
Renton, WA