<VV> April Fools and Incredo Products

[airvair]

Hey Pete. I loved the Incredo Products ads. Now THAT was great humor.
Not lame at all (unlike some recent attempts in CC). And easily
understood as humor by anyone, even if they're as dense as bricks.

If the membership wants humor in the April CC issue, then maybe they
could rerun the Incredo Products ads. I'm sure most CORSA members
haven't seen them anyway. Harry, are you there?

-Mark

peter koehler wrote:
> 
> I want to toss in my observation on the current noise
> about our April Foolishness. Taking a historical
> perspective on this, I remember when the April jokes
> centered around silly ads for non-products offered by a
> non-existent company called Incredo Products. I think
> Larry Claypool and the late Pete Skony were the brains
> behind this good natured fun. I first saw these spoofs in
> the CCE newsletter, "the Airhorn". We even changed the
> name for the April issue to "The Airblast" just for grins.
> The Incredo Products ads were great. No one in the CCE
> ever sent any money to 1313 1/2 Lost in Mail Lane in
> Somewhere, NJ for this stuff. I always looked forward to
> the April issue to see what Larry and Pete had cooked up.
> Later on in my CCE career I was able to publish some
> Incredo ideas of my own, by the originals were the best.
> Maybe we shouldn't joke about products or services that
> the members might actually want to buy? As for me, I still
> want a can "Sludge-O-Matic" whatever that was supposed to
> do to or for your 'Vair. - Pete Koehler - sometime
> Communique Feature Editor
>