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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:04 pm 
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Feb. 23, 2007— For the second time in less than a month, Bostonians are all alone in balking at an ad campaign moving through their city — and just like last time, they're getting paid for it.

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, the candy and soft drink manufacturer that makes Dr Pepper soda, has canceled a treasure hunt promotion in an historic Boston cemetery. City officials locked down the site, the Granary Burying Ground, where the soda maker had hidden a coin that might be worth $1 million.

Dr Pepper's "The Hunt for More" campaign, which began on Jan. 23, challenged contestants to collect 23 "hidden treasures," or coins, in 23 cities across the country.

The clue for the Boston location led contestants to the Granary Burying Ground, a 347-year-old landmark where Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere — among other prominent American patriots — are buried.

When Boston officials learned of the campaign, they promptly locked the gates of the cemetery and dispatched security guards, preventing contestants from entering to search for the prized coin, which was hidden inside a leather pouch among the graves.

Of the 23 cities involved in the Dr Pepper promotion, Boston was the only one to complain.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:08 pm 
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My question is this: do people really pronounce "historic" with a silent H?

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in Boston, the R is silent


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aFreshStart4Me Wrote:
in Boston, the R is silent

NOMAH!!!!!!!


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For the second time in less than a month, Bostonians are all alone in balking at an ad campaign moving through their city — and just like last time, they're getting paid for it.

so i guess boston is now blacklisted by agencies looking to do any type of outside-the-box advertising, right?


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:18 pm 
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Hegel Wrote:
Feb. 23, 2007— For the second time in less than a month, Bostonians are all alone in balking at an ad campaign moving through their city — and just like last time, they're getting paid for it.

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, the candy and soft drink manufacturer that makes Dr Pepper soda, has canceled a treasure hunt promotion in an historic Boston cemetery. City officials locked down the site, the Granary Burying Ground, where the soda maker had hidden a coin that might be worth $1 million.

Dr Pepper's "The Hunt for More" campaign, which began on Jan. 23, challenged contestants to collect 23 "hidden treasures," or coins, in 23 cities across the country.

The clue for the Boston location led contestants to the Granary Burying Ground, a 347-year-old landmark where Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere — among other prominent American patriots — are buried.

When Boston officials learned of the campaign, they promptly locked the gates of the cemetery and dispatched security guards, preventing contestants from entering to search for the prized coin, which was hidden inside a leather pouch among the graves.

Of the 23 cities involved in the Dr Pepper promotion, Boston was the only one to complain.


I don't really understand what happened

Dr. P campaign dug up dead people and placed coins in they trousers?
then reburied them and told people to go get em?

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aFreshStart4Me Wrote:
in Boston, the R is silent

NOMAH!!!!!!!


one of my finest memories is attending a sox game at fenway many years ago. it was nomar's first game back from injury, must have been in early to mid august. hearing an entire crowd of massholes chanting "nomah" was pretty damn funny. there was no R collectively, among thousands of people.

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As Winston Churchill said on Britain and America "One people seperated by a love/hate of Dr. Pepper".

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Morbid? I'll say. I'm A Pepper dude danced in their commericals AND ripped peoples throats out as a werewolf.

Plus he had that song that makes you want to commit suicide.


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f r o s t e d Wrote:
Morbid? I'll say. I'm A Pepper dude danced in their commericals AND ripped peoples throats out as a werewolf.

Plus he had that song that makes you want to commit suicide.


ha. Nicely played.

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It would have been less obtuse except I forgot his name. David something. Naughton, maybe?


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That's it. I just imdb'd him. He's done a lot of one-off tv appearances, and was in Hot Dog: The Movie.

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