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Burger King Dethroned

By Aaron Goldstein on 8.19.11 @ 9:31AM

Joe Lawler draws our attention to the dethroning of the Burger King, the last in the long line of monarchs who descended from the House of Whopper.

I agree with USA Today's assessment that the current incarnation of the Burger King was "creepy."

But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Burger King was portrayed by an actual human being. He even had an adversary named the Duke of Doubt. I guess it was Burger King's answer to Ronald McDonald and Hamburglar although if you were watch this commercial you might very well grimace at the thought.

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ggoblue| 8.19.11 @ 10:36AM

after that commercial where the king scored a touchdown, he was signed by the detroit lions....a black hole from which no one escapes...even the king.

Grzmlyk| 8.19.11 @ 2:13PM

And when the Lions release him, the Bears will pick him up.

That was the creepiest friggin' marketing icon I have ever seen. The thing gave me nightmares.

You gotta wonder what advertising execs are smoking sometimes.

Dixie Pixie| 8.19.11 @ 10:51AM

You will know what little civilization America had, has fallen when you are facing serious prison time for not eating your mandatory allocation of Burger King deep-fat fried carrots and flame-broiled broccoli.

As noted in today's main page articles, the federal government has given itself the power to mandate a citizens buying decisions.
Since good nutrition is a foundation of good health, it naturally follows that the federal government will use its mandatory buying powers to mandate good health through mandatory food consumption.
Of course a Food Police, Nutrition Courts and a Food Gulag system of prisons will be necessary to enforce federal food dicta as noted in another TAS article.
After all there is no “Freedom to Eat” clause in the Bill of Rights.
Bon Appetite You-all

Grzmlyk| 8.19.11 @ 2:57PM

Do not mock your dear leaders, Comrade Dixie Pixie. They are only looking out for your best interests; if they say you must eat healthier, than you had damn well better get with the program.

After all, according to good liberal/leftist/Marxist/progressive ideology, you have no individual rights; what's important is not fredom, but the welfare of The System. As such, your identity has been subsumed into anonymous membership in an abstract group, and your group is the "The Hateful, Evil White People Who Have Too Much" group.

Please report to your local Commissar to receive a list of your exact responsibilities (and any fees owed) at Bureaucratic Sector 9, to which your group has been designated.

You don't want to be sentenced to a stretch in your local "Re-education and Social Remediation Center," do you? I'm sure you don't mean to offend even the lowliest bureaucrat wielding the awesome power of The State.

I won't report you THIS time, because no doubt you still have fresh in your memory the evil, greedy, bigoted days of intolerable American Exceptionalism, when this country was the land of the free and the home of the brave, with liberty and justice for all.

Now, under our new benevolent regime, we are the land of indentured servitude for some, decadent luxury for others and the home of the craven. With serfdom and racial/environmental/social justice for whomever they damn well please.

Our Dear Sovereign, the Good King Barack and his court are only looking out for the Common Good; we are all mere cogs in the Glorious Machinery of The State, after all, and we ought to be grateful that The State delivers unto us its beneficence for as long as we remain useful to it, praise be to Obama.

Now shut up and eat your peas.

Or else.

Dixie Pixie| 8.19.11 @ 7:59PM

….LOL...
Well Done....Grzmlyk....Well Done

Then it is probability a good thing that most on the TAS threads can not figure out my gender or species.
Just for the Food Commissars records, I live in the top of an ancient acorn oak overlooking a green and pleasant valley.
Look for a small fast flying mischievous spirit who favors blue and woodland green clothing.
Look out for falling wood mauls as that is my way of welcoming unwanted mountain trolls.

Well Done....Grzmlyk....Well Done
.....LOL......