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Sep. 24th, 2008 01:01 pm
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I subscribe to Very Short List - a newsletter that sends you one email every weekday about something they consider cool or interesting or what have you. I've mostly been unimpressed with their stuff, but today's entry is actually kind of interesting.

A while back, Ridley Scott directed what turned out to be a hugely popular British ad for Hovis bread.



The Hovis company, in celebration of its 122nd anniversary, decided to make a new ad in the spirit of the old one: a bread delivery boy on a delivery run - but the path is through time as well as through space, and the two-minute piece really works exceedingly well:



Enjoy!

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