[Techtalk] OT: Floor wax & desert topping (was: Solarisexperience)

[Julie]

Caitlyn Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:19:46 -0500
> Julie <txjulie at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>The commercial is for a product called "Shimmer".  I forget the
>>exact commercial but in one clip the woman is using it to wax
>>her floor and in another she is putting it on her husband's
>>dessert.
>>
> 
> It made fun of a dual purpose cleaner for countertops and floors that
> was on TV when the original Shimmer commercial spoof was done back in
> the '70s.  Bill Murray was the husband.  I *think* Jane Curtain was the
> wife.  It was almost word for word the original commercial, but in place
> of the two cleaning products it used floor polish and desert topping. 
> It was pretty funny if you had seen the original commercial.

What was the original product?!?  I didn't know that there was
a real product being spoofed.

> P.S.:  I don't consider 43 old.

I just consider it "older" ;-)
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