[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hey, Chi,

About the butter maiden — I want to ask you a question:

You have been around here for almost as long as I have, and I have always assumed that you are a guy. If you are, indeed, a guy, that means that you were once a 5th grade boy.

If so, and now that you have mentioned the famous butter maiden, I am wondering if you and your 5th grade buddies ever got an empty Land O’ Lakes butter box and folded that picture so that her knees moved up to where they appeared to be another part of her anatomy. If you did that, you know what I mean.

(In 1957 The Hidden Persuaders” by Vance Packard was published. It’s about the secrets of advertising — what makes people want what is being sold. Subliminal messages were outed as a big part of the advertising game. Sooooo — about those knees — could that have been subliminal messaging that sold a whole lot of butter. )

Boomer

Wow in the fifth grade could have cared less. Now when I got to 7th grade ........