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Dear Don,
Though a bit younger than thou, I vaguely recall in the 50s a Charmin
add with a pale winged nymph carrying a baton with a sparkling tip with
which she blessed and illumed oh so soft toilet rolls. My quick research
tells me that Charmin in manufactured by Hoberg Paper Company in Green
Bay Wisconsin and has been around since 1928. A recent entry on the Net
offers this charmin' bit of poshlust: The Free Charmin Roll Ruler-"It's
no secret that children sometimes have trouble figuring out how much
toilet tissue to use. That's why we created the Charmin Roll Ruler. .a
colorful, convenient visual aide that hangs on the toilet roll to teach
kids exactly how much tissue to use."!!!
Best greetings,
Jerry Katsell
-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:49 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry in
this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The winner
will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson
Line 412ff The Cause of
Poetry on Channel 8.
A nymph came
pirouetting, under white
Rotating petals, in a
vernal rite
To kneel before an
altar in a wood
Where various articles
of toilet stood.
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Though a bit younger than thou, I vaguely recall in the 50s a Charmin
add with a pale winged nymph carrying a baton with a sparkling tip with
which she blessed and illumed oh so soft toilet rolls. My quick research
tells me that Charmin in manufactured by Hoberg Paper Company in Green
Bay Wisconsin and has been around since 1928. A recent entry on the Net
offers this charmin' bit of poshlust: The Free Charmin Roll Ruler-"It's
no secret that children sometimes have trouble figuring out how much
toilet tissue to use. That's why we created the Charmin Roll Ruler. .a
colorful, convenient visual aide that hangs on the toilet roll to teach
kids exactly how much tissue to use."!!!
Best greetings,
Jerry Katsell
-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:49 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry in
this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The winner
will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson
Line 412ff The Cause of
Poetry on Channel 8.
A nymph came
pirouetting, under white
Rotating petals, in a
vernal rite
To kneel before an
altar in a wood
Where various articles
of toilet stood.
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archive at UCSB
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