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Thomas Edison? Excuse me?!?
I saw this commercial for the first tine last night. It ticked me off enough that I send a slightly nasty-gram to Mazda. Wasn't surprised to find other people had done the same.
I wonder if anyone can tell me why it irked me.
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Because Tesla is the one who actually flipped the switch
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He electrocuted animals trying to prove his DC power distribution was better than AC (Westinghouse)..... and he was wrong, advantages to AC.
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09-28-2013, 12:17 PM
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I'm with Bill
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Edison played an acoustic guitar
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09-28-2013, 12:26 PM
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09-28-2013, 01:44 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-CwEdwktg
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09-28-2013, 03:12 PM
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Tesla was a scientist. Edison was a marketer.
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09-28-2013, 03:26 PM
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Tesla was a genius.
The commercial bugged me, too. Nothing like continuing the disinformation
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The mazda marketing folks are just continuing a long and distinguished tradition of mis-information regarding Edison and his marketing....
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Wouldn't they need Edison family approval to use his name?
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09-28-2013, 07:39 PM
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Tesla was abused by Edison.
They just gave the Patton rites to Tesla for radio, which had been given to Marconi (maybe last year)
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They were both batschitzcrazy.......prolly had redheaded mothers.
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09-29-2013, 08:09 AM
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excuse me spelling Marm
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Lmao!!!
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