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4 hours ago, medjuck said:

I gotta add The Staypuft Marshmallow Man

My father-in-law was the ad man-product design guy who came up with the idea of the Pillsbury Doughboy. He named it the Doughboy because his father had been a much-decorated and underage soldier  in WWI, and U.S. soldiers in WWI were known as as "Doughboys."

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/origindb.htm

Leo Burnett copywriter Rudy Perz has been credited with the Pillsbury Doughboy idea, but in fact it was my father-in-law Norman Kosarin's baby. Among other things, my wife, then age 9, clearly recalls her dad -- also a Leo Burnett employee and still with us thanks be -- creating the Doughboy figure in their kitchen. He never made a big thing of it, regarding it as part of his job.

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1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

My father-in-law was the ad man-product design guy who came up with the idea of the Pillsbury Doughboy. He named it the Doughboy because his father had been a much-decorated and underage soldier  in WWI, and U.S. soldiers in WWI were known as as "Doughboys."

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/origindb.htm

Leo Burnett copywriter Rudy Perz has been credited with the Pillsbury Doughboy idea, but in fact it was my father-in-law Norman Kosarin's baby. Among other things, my wife, then age 9, clearly recalls her dad -- also a Leo Burnett employee and still with us thanks be -- creating the Doughboy figure in their kitchen. He never made a big thing of it, regarding it as part of his job.

Interesting. Thanks for that info, Larry.

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