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Silvio Berlusconi has been running Italy since the 80’s!

By Matthew Rutledge on 10.15.2009

Look at this advert­ise­ment. “We dedic­ate the new Casio FX-750P pocket computer to Silvio Berlusconi.” It would be one thing (although a weird thing never­the­less) to dedic­ate a computer to him if he had been pres­id­ent in the 80’s, but he was merely a media tycoon. I guess it would be like […]

Posted in Cultural Ephemera, Italia! | Tagged 1983, advert, advertisement, B&W, casio, italy, silvio berlusconi, weird | Leave a response

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If you are what you drive…

By Matthew Rutledge on 07.27.2009

Then you’re in the shop weekly, French designed by built in Wisconsin by angry AMC employ­ees, and 0–60 in 12 seconds!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Renaults, I really do, I just can’t think of a worse time in US history for them to have hit the domestic market.

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