My Facebook Match Game Super Match post for January 26, 2012 was:[1] I wasn’t surprised at such perennial responses as “Mother,” or millennial ones as “Grey.” [2] But I was nonplussed that not a single friend from childhood (or who happened to be in California in the 1970s) had posted what I thought was the […]
Looking at Match Game ‘7x, Part 3a: Memory Goosed
February 22, 2012 | 5 Comments
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Looking at Match Game ‘7x, Part 2: Passing Through the Future
January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Not surprisingly, the official $500 response for: was “Diamond Ring,” an evergreen answer if there ever was one. According to Gemnation and a couple of other sources, the De Beers catchphrase, “A diamond is forever,” has been around since Frances Gerety of ad agency N.W. Ayer & Son launched it in 1947. That was 65 […]
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