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Thread #109704   Message #2295989
Posted By: Bat Goddess
23-Mar-08 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Politics Explained
Subject: RE: BS: Politics Explained
I just posted a comment to the blog that Guest: Guezzt and Georgiansilver linked to above.

Here's what I said --

I am a digital pre-press production person (or graphic designer, if you prefer). While working on proprietary computerized typesetting equipment for a commercial printer in the early 1980s, I did two business cards for a friend of my husband from several ideas I, uh, "borrowed" from I think a paper company's sample/example pack of that era. One of them was very similar to the above (I modified and added to the list) and the other was "Professional Party Attendee" (Free within 200 mile radius; with or without clothes).

Here's the multiple title one --

second hand furniture • whiskey • chemical fertilizers • nails
fly swatters • abatoir equipment • kosher meats • live bait
knit dress alterations • investment counseling
                            Dennis Goodfriend
                               (603) 942-0000
      marriage counseling       catch basin cleaning
            data processing                  bars emptied
          soft shoe dancer             orgies organized
       revolutions started       dinosaurs neutered
          governments run    foreign trade consultant
                   fashion model instruction
    charter bus service • Maine Guide • TV Guide

I'm pretty sure the original was the advertising product of a paper company that was sent to commercial printers.

Linn