When you were a youngster, did you ever try to find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

  How did you arrive at that figure, please?
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  Thank you.
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  Heck, for that matter, who counts the licks at any time? Lol. 

  That’s the entire point of the ad campaign decades ago. The marketing execs at the candy company knew that since the vast majority of people who ate their product were children, hardly any child would have the patience to go through the whole thing just licking it and would soon bite down, but that the challenge would make the child think he or she could try again on another one, thereby resulting in increased sales.
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You’re right. Numerous ad campaigns have the effect of sticking in our minds and memories long after their original run, which is exactly what the advertising industry seeks, lol. 

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They got me.  Although I didn’t/don’t buy their products, I still remember their commercials… even from companies that no longer exist!

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Dawn is approaching as a small car with a pinging engine rolls up to a large, 2-story suburban-type house.  As the car engine goes quiet, all that can be heard is the sound of chirping crickets.  A short, slightly balding, middle-aged man gets out of the car.  He opens the trunk of the car and as quietly as possible, pulls out a bowling ball bag and closes the lid.  He then carefully tiptoes from the car to the house; his footsteps sound like he’s walking in gravel.  He slowly tiptoes up 4 steps to the porch of the house.  Just as he touches the handle to the screen door, the lights inside of the house come on and a loud, nagging female voice says:
“Knock Knock – Leonard!
It’s 5 am – Leonard!
I heard you coming - ping, ping, ping, all the way up the road!”  (As she’s saying this, a bowling ball drops out of the bag, and bounces off the porch and down the steps).
“If you think for one minute that...”

The woman’s voice continues to nag in background, but it is now faint and unintelligible as the announcer’s voice says -
“Next time, get Gulf No-nox perineum gasoline.
No-nox is a special gasoline that has an additive that stops cars from knocking.
(The large Gulf logo fills the screen)  Imagine what No-nox can do for a car that doesn’t knock.
Try a little…(clank, clank)… and see.”

The man is now sitting on the top porch step with his head in his hands as the nagging female voice once again becomes loud and clear:
“You and your bowling systems - Leonard!”