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a LoveBundle with a LoveBug for your LovedOne (valentine's day 1971)

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  New York Daily News, February 8, 1971. How many people wandered around North America with LoveBug corsages pinned to their heart on Valentine's Day half-a-century ago? If the answer was "not many," it wasn't for a lack of trying as FTD filled newspapers across the US and Canada with ads featuring the LoveBug and his LoveBundle. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 7, 1971. I'm trying to figure out if the triangle sticking out of the LoveBug is part of the ribbon or is his tongue. It's possible that the LoveBug was a cousin of the Tim Horton's  Timbit character  and  Thing from TVO's  Readalong . Schematic diagram of the LoveBundle, Ottawa Citizen, February 4, 1971. In Ottawa, the Citizen offered two LoveBundles as prizes in a children's colouring contest. "Some 400 children got out their colouring materials, set their mouths just right and coloured the bouquet called a LoveBundle," Citizen women's editor Shirley Foley not...

join the international tacky poetry society of toronto

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There once was an ad Whose opening was mad And celebrated poetry so bad It made us kinda sad But not as much as Vlad Who tried to write a poem about plaid While sprawled in his pad Next to his sleeping dad For a recent literature grad He did not think his prose was so rad. Source: Now , March 30, 1989.