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Can’t we make the annoying TV ads go away?

Haven’t we had enough of those incessant dentist and pillow commercials? They remind me of a scene in the Woody Allen comedy “Sleeper” when the future scientists ask the accidental cryogenics victim whether people in his era who had committed crimes against the state had been forced to watch Howard Cosell.

This is bordering on cruel and unusual punishment. At this point, I’d be willing to pay them to stop it. Let’s take up a collection.

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