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Mmmm, pork

Published 10:05 pm Thursday, June 10, 2010

One of The Buzz’s favorite marketing slogans will soon be replaced. The National Pork Board intends to retire “Pork: The other white meat,” and is casting about for a new motto.

We humbly offer a few snappy slogan ideas:

  • “Pork: Providing common ground for Jews and Muslims since 632.”

  • “Pork: The second ‘Babe’ movie kinda sucked, so it’s OK to eat pigs.”

  • “Pork: Now you can eat as well as those ‘Deadwood’ hogs.”

    Sound familiar? Speaking of fresh ideas, Hollywood flexes its creative muscles with a movie version of the 1980s TV show “The A-Team” and a remake of the 1980s movie “The Karate Kid.”

    The Buzz pities the fool who tries to pitch a movie project to a Hollywood mogul that isn’t based on something the exec loved when he was 12.

    Games before butter: Sobering news has rocked the video game industry: Their business isn’t recession-proof after all.

    And that, indeed, is shocking. Because who among us has not declared: “We’re eating nothing but Vaseline on toast this month, because we need the cash for “Red Dead Redemption.”

    — Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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