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Oil Impressionist

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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The Golden Book post got me thinking about Life Savers and the
evolutions they've been through.

Originally there were the p-mint types and the five flavors, right?
Then we went into the other types. Tropical fruit etc. I remember the
candy cane kind at Christmas. Yum-yum! Now they have the Creme
Savers, which I'm addicted to!!

My mom always seemed to carry the peppermint ones, but they seemed (and
still do seem) too dry for my tongue. Yucky! The regular orange and
cherry were my favs until the strawberry creme savers.

Any Life Savers memories out there?

DLN Oil Impressionist
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Joy910

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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I loved the tropical fruit ones!! my mother always carried Wint-o-green, which
I hated cause it always gave me a headache. Remember the Cheers episode where
Carla was making the wint-o-green spark in her teeth and everyone was under the
blanket cause it was dark enough to see it?!! I loved that!

Joy

Bob the Baker

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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I used to love getting those Lifesaver Storybooks for Christmas, full of I
think 10 different packs of Lifesavers. Still love FANCY Fruits, but I
don't know if you can get those anymore....and Butter Rum, which is still
out there.

Nadine

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Dixon Hayes

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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(jingle)

"Oh that great flavor that's been around
for years and years..."
"Lifesavers...a part of living..."

Remember the ad with Henry Fonda? How about the one with Suzanne Somers and
her father?

I remember getting Lifesavers a lot over the years. It seems that I was about
ten before I even realized they came in other flavors besides five-flavored,
since that one was the most heavily marketed toward kids...

Dixon

"If there's anything that upsets me, it's having people say I'm sensitive!"
--Barney Fife

al...@my-deja.com

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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oh man creme savers!!! i totally forgot about those books of life
savers! my sister and i used to fight over who got the package of
"wild cherry" lifesavers, man that was a good flavour! then i totally
abandoned lifesavers until about three years ago when one of my
coworkers gave me a lifesaver (i was out of my trademark gummi bears,
which i usually have a big-ass wal mart tub of them in my desk drawer)
and i became hooked all over again!!! has anyone had those big
lifesavers??? those are excellent, but i hate that they're
individually wrapped (i'm wrapping removably incompetent), and the
GUMMI SAVERS--i've died and gone to heaven!!!

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Sandyfour

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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>I used to love getting those Lifesaver Storybooks for Christmas, full of I
>think 10 different packs of Lifesavers. Still love FANCY Fruits, but I
>don't know if you can get those anymore....and Butter Rum, which is still
>out there.
>
>Nadine
>
>

ooooooo, Butter Rum!! Definately my favorite! MMMMMMMM!


Sandy
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Sandyfour

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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Heeeeere goes Dixon again! : )

>(jingle)
>
>"Oh that great flavor that's been around
>for years and years..."
>"Lifesavers...a part of living..."
>
>

Sandy

Oil Impressionist

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Nov 24, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/24/99
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In article <19991123144935...@ng-xb1.aol.com>,

We officially crown Dixon: King of Commercial Trivia!!

{Placing crown on Sir Dixon's bowed head . . . Gee, it looks a lot
like the Imperial margarine crown!}

Dun da-da DA!!

Michael Kotler

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Dec 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/7/99
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In article <19991122111155...@ng-da1.aol.com>,
dixon...@aol.comspamless says...
> (jingle)

> "Oh that great flavor that's been around
> for years and years..."
> "Lifesavers...a part of living..."

How about the one with the father and his depressed son walking out of
the ice rink. The son was upset because he "...let the puck get by him,
and lost the hockey game." That commercial was so well known that an
episode of Happy Days did a joke based on it.

But who remembers another, animated commercial for Life Savers from the
earlier '70s. This was a cartoon of a sort of factory that made the
candy and stacked it into the roll package. The soundtrack was an
a capella song of:

(unison) "Life Savers, Life Savers fun to eat, 22 flavors can't be beat
(group sings) "Hey, Life Savers!"
(unison) "Life Savers, Life Savers <something> rolls, 22 flavors, 22
holes."
(group sings) "Hey, Life Savers!"
(unison) "Oh Life Savers."

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