Lovin' spoonful

ToddJBehme · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:05 am

Anyone with me on banning heds and ledes on McDonald's stories that play off the slogan "I'm lovin' it"? We could start today, as McD released its earnings, which are up 25 percent.

majorbabs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:44 am

As long as you're not using the word McProfit either.

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:07 pm

I was about to post a Red Alert on this subject before I saw the original posting. Consider it in effect.

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:12 pm

I don't understand. What this "I'm lovin' it" thing about?[ July 22, 2004: Message edited by: Coyote Refugee ]

Matthew Grieco · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:17 pm

It's McDonald's latest advertising tagline.

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:28 pm

Also: I see a lot of "Salad days for McDonald's" headlines around the Web; it goes without saying that that won't fly.

TheWalrus · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:34 pm

So absolutely no McLedes?

secretsquirrel · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:17 pm

No Quarter Bounder? No Big 'N' Hasty? If it turns out they've doctored the figures a bit, would it then become a Whopper?[ July 22, 2004: Message edited by: secretsquirrel ]

leftcoaster · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:59 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
Also: I see a lot of "Salad days for McDonald's" headlines around the Web; it goes without saying that that won't fly.<hr></blockquote>I think it's a fantastic solecism! The term 'salad days' refers to a time when women believed certain plants, eaten in a salad, would act as contraceptives. Thus to be in your salad days was to be young and fertile (and female). Changes the way one thinks about Ronald....[ July 22, 2004: Message edited by: leftcoaster ]

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:21 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by leftcoaster:
I think it's a fantastic solecism! The term 'salad days' refers to a time when women believed certain plants, eaten in a salad, would act as contraceptives. Thus to be in your salad days was to be young and fertile (and female). <hr></blockquote>I'm not Robert F. Burchfield, but that doesn't ring any bells. This is more like it:The time of youth, innocence, and inexperience, as in Back in our salad days we went anywhere at night, never thinking about whether it was safe or not. This expression, alluding to the greenness of inexperience, was probably invented by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1:5), when Cleopatra, now enamored of Antony, speaks of her early admiration for Julius Caesar as foolish: "My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood." (American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms)

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