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Joel Polowin  
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 More options Nov 5 2009, 6:55 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: Joel Polowin <jpolo...@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:55:16 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 6:55 am
Subject: Re: YASID - short story, possibly by Asimov
On Nov 4, 4:49 pm, Michael Grosberg <grosberg.mich...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's a short story, and the guy who was asking for this is convinced
> it's an Asimov (I'm not that sure myself). It describes a future in
> which advertising becomes so prevalent there are ads on practically
> everything - toilet paper, windows, bedsheets, etc. The story tells of
> a man who is fed up with all this and discovers a black market for ad-
> free products.

And the "black market" is actually a government organization whose
mandate is to find the anti-advertising misfits and turn them into
happy corporate consumers..?

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