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A theme for these ads seemed to be the contrast between contemporary society & the characters.
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David Rufkahr played Frank Bartles and Dick Maugg played Ed Jaymes. Prior to their work on the ads, neither Rufkahr nor Maugg had been an actor: Rufkahr, a career Air Force veteran and cattle rancher from Redmond, Oregon, won the job in a talent search, whereas Dick Maugg was a general contractor from Santa Rosa, California.
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The sickest human I ever observed was well into a couple dozen Bartles & James wine coolers, I’m pretty sure he never did that again, the area he nastied was declared a super fund site.
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Pretty sure none of these “wine coolers” even contain wine. They’re malt-based so they can be classified as a beer for tax purposes.
Most states tax beer at a lower rate than wine.
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My family still says “And we thank you for your support” on a semi-regular basis. None of us ever bought the product. Messaging>product.
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I am pretty certain “wine” coolers only existed to get teenaged girls drunk. Too sweet, too fizzy, too yuck for anything else.
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It actually did contain wine before 1991, the year where they raised the federal excise tax on wine from $0.17/gal to $1.07/gal.
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And the wine they used before 1991 was horrible crap that even Gallow customers wouldn’t otherwise drink. The red wine version was particularly atrocious with overtones of rotting fruit and a metallic finish.
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Nobody remembers what brand of Italian food used the tagline “Mama mia, that’s a spicy meatball!”–because it’s from a commercial for Alka-Seltzer.
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Asti or Muscat or GTFO.
Oh lord do I hate red or rose.
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I bought a 4- or 6-pack of these things from our Class VI store back in '84. I was a young soldier used to eating anything from kimchi to currywurst. These horrible things gave me indigestion/acid reflux and I never touched them again. They tore me up as bad as some shitty, granular wine I should have left in the DDR.
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Same here, the only time I drank the stuff was as a young soldier in Germany. And to make things worse, the guys I was with spiked it with vodka when I wasn’t looking, and I chugged it.
After that, I stuck to beer, or real wine.
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I can’t think of this stuff without immediately remembering a late-80’s New Years party where I noticed my buddy’s girlfriend looked ill, and while I was looking at her, as if in slow motion, a long pink tongue of wine-cooler-vomit extended out her mouth and splashed onto the card table.
All these hard lemonades, hard iced teas, and hard seltzers are the new wine coolers.
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Your prose is without equal, party on dude.
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Isn’t this what is called a “Technicolor Yawn”?
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What, no Niagara? Those wines have the aroma of Welch’s grape juice, and after tasting one, I had to pull my cheeks away from my teeth. 
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I’d never heard of it. I’ll investigate!
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