Charles Nelson Reilly Has a Tax-Induced Headache
Want to know the true barbarity of tax state? Check out this old Excedrin ad in which Charles Nelson Reilly (!?!?) is reduced to a stammering heap of jelly during a tax audit for claiming that a fur coat he bought for "a m-m-model" is a "legitimate business expense." He "owns a dress line," fer chrissakes.
Everyone feels like a criminal on tax day!
Does Leviathan know no bounds? And does Excedrin really have four (count 'em) ingredients, including an anti-depressant?
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I bet the anti-depressant is caffeine.
EXCEDRIN Coated tablets
Scientific Name
Acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine tablets
Composition
Each tablet contains:
- Acetaminophen 250mg
- Aspirin 250mg
- Caffeine 65mg.
I'm thinking the 4th ingredient is love.
acetaminophen, aspirin and caffine are the three in the current formulation; I wonder what the fourth was?
Damn you sugar-free!
um, maybe it's asperteme?
Sorry, K.
I wonder what the fourth was?
"Coca leaf extract"?
HFCS?
Codeine?
Ah, the joy of google...
Some formulations of Extra Strength Excedrin contain Salicylamide.
And they had a FTC lawsuit over these commercials.
Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.
I wonder how that ad would have played with Paul Lynde instead?
Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.
Lidsville must have been torture for you!
Interesting, SugarFree. I've never heard of Salicylamide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylamide
Vanessa,
Thanks for posting the wiki link. I've got some sort of linking problem w/ H&R. I cut n' paste one thing and then a circular reason.com is substituted. It's odd. And it's not regular so I can't anticipate it.
Ah, for the days of yore, when Charles Nelson Reilly strode like a Titan across this land.
SD,
Yea, he really was the Top Hat for a while there.
I wonder how Charles Nelson Rielly would have played with Paul Lynde?
Or perhaps not.
CNR is no longer with us. And we are much the poorer for it. I weep.