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                          Only Half-Proudly Presents: 
                                RED-3-5.TXT aka 
                    "Them Damn Mentos! 2: A Quick Follow-Up"  
                               by: Black Francis  

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   While flipping through the December 1st edition of the Philadelphia Daily 
News, I came across a small article located next to the nights tv highlights 
that really suprised me.  It was about Mentos commercials.  I found this odd 
because about three or four days earlier, I had just finished my ReD article 
about the same subject, and I thought would serve as a nice follow-up to  
RED-003, my article on Mentos commercials, for more than one reason.  Not only 
did it deal with the mystifying Mentos commercials, but it deals with us  
computer geeks and such computer-geekesque topics like America Online and the  
Internet.  Here it is: 

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Manic for Mentos! 

   Apparently we're not the only viewers who are scratching our foreheads 
trying to understand those surreal commercials for Mentos, the mint candy 
chews. 
   On America Online, a bulletin board has been created for anyone intereted 
in venting about the vexing Dutch ads.  None of them makes any sense,  
particularly the commercial that features a teen-ager pretending he's a  
mannequin in order to escape from a middle-aged woman. 
   About 250 Internet surfers have asked one another why the lady is chasing 
the kid; have pointed out a guest star on "Baywatch" <Baywatch?  These people 
really give us a bad name> held up a pack of Mentos so that the label was 
prominently displayed; and have even theorized that there is a connection 
between "The X-Files," possibly that the disc-shaped Euro-sweets were really 
UFOs. 
   We think the on-line user who calls him or herself Djani <bahaha> put it  
best put it best by suggesting that Mentos is an abbreviation for More Extra- 
Terrestrial Nerds Talk on Saturdays. 

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