My childhood is now entirely tainted. I watched that man cry in between all my cartoons. I am such a bleeding heart and the idiot is ITALIAN!

I remember hearing about the ads, but I don't actually remember seeing them.

But that's just messed up is what that is.

Santa Claus
Easter Bunny
Smokey the Bear
WMDs
Iron Eyes Cody

Dangit!!!

Is that Paul Hogan? lol

ThreadBare said:

Cross him out now!

I remember him following a coke can down a stream and then a single tear runs down his cheek as he is so very hurt by the discard.

Ocean said:

ROFLMAO!

Italians care about the environment, too!



i know what you mean though...that commercial was beyond corny.

I remember those commercials. I'm really not surprised, it was back in the day. Did those commercials really help?
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Muse, I hear ya, sis. I used to watch those commercials at dinnertime, too. It was very distressful.

And, they came at a time of optimism, around the time of Alcoa ("we can't wait for tomorrow") and the mountainside Coke commercials. Very moving ads. And, he was a charlatan!!! "Booooo!!!"

ThreadBare said:

stop biting my style.

JasmineFire said:

When was the last time you used the word "charlatan?"

ThreadBare said:

don't make me throw a tampon at you.

JasmineFire said:

"Really, now..."

ThreadBare said:

never trust anything that bleeds for more than two days and lives.

JasmineFire said:

Mach said:

seriously...he has the phobia.

JasmineFire said:

JasmineFire said:

Damn falsehood...I thought he was a Native American.

JasmineFire said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

JasmineFire said:

Love me 'til my heart stops...love me 'til I'm dead and or til I bleed more then 2 days!

I've been duped!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

women are so scary! with all their bleedings and tampons and woman voodoo!

JasmineFire said:

ThreadBare said:

tooth fairy
Leprachaun (st. patrick's day) these too

OMG!!! That guy seriously messed me up! I was a super sensitive child anyway and his blubbering used to make me fear we were all polluting ourselves into a mass grave!



PS: Only an Italian could pull off that great acting.

I always instinctively knew he was Italian.

The spaghetti in his ponytails made him suspicious.

I remember him sitting all high and mighty on his horse..

Cody was born Espera de Corti, a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily. In some of his earliest acting credits Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. He would soon change his name and claim to be part Cherokee and part Cree.

In 1996, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported his Sicilian heritage, but Cody denied it at the time because he was "ashamed" of his Italian heritage. Cody and his wife Bertha adopted several children, all Native Americans.


Self-hating Italians.