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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: ABQ, New Mexico
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The timid grocer who pleaded with patrons not to squeeze the Charmin appeared in a staggering 504 ads for the toilet paper brand during a 21-year span, from 1964 to 1985. At one point, he polled as the best-known American behind only Richard Nixon and Billy Graham. His ubiquitous (but perhaps not quite as iconic) successors? Cartoon bears who have a disturbing habit of "leaving pieces behind."
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