------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________ \__ __ / ____/ \ / _/ ___/__ _/ \ / / \ / / /____/_____\________/________/ "|~34|_|_-< 3|_i+3 />00/>Z" Only Half-Proudly Presents: RED-3-5.TXT aka "Them Damn Mentos! 2: A Quick Follow-Up" by: Black Francis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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" 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 put it best put it best by suggesting that Mentos is an abbreviation for More Extra- Terrestrial Nerds Talk on Saturdays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------