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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1523099" data-attributes="member: 3649">We're Beatrice&nbsp;In, oh, the early 80's we started to notice a common thread among several very different product ads, products that had nothing to do with each other: they'd all end with this chipper yet very Stepford Wives-like voice saying 'We're Beatrice', along with a red label. It appeared on a lot of ads, and it soon became apparent to us that Beatrice, whoever the hell it was, was in fact one of the Secret Masters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It looked like they owned everything. Then, maybe a year or so later, it all faded away, as if they'd realized they'd tipped their hand and revealed too much. It was, indeed, a little creepy. We'd never realized before just how many things some of these huge multinationals owned; brands we'd thought were in happy free competition with each other were in fact all just fingers of the same hand. &nbsp;But the name, the saying, made it into our games and stayed there to this day. When we find evidence that a villain owns this, and this and yes this as well.. like as not one of us will say 'We're Beatrice' in that same creepy voice. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.culturefreak.com/beatrice.html" target="_blank">I did a little web search, and found out more about 'We're Beatrice' here. </a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 1523099, member: 3649"] [b]We're Beatrice[/b] In, oh, the early 80's we started to notice a common thread among several very different product ads, products that had [i]nothing[/i] to do with each other: they'd all end with this chipper yet very Stepford Wives-like voice saying [i]'We're Beatrice'[/i], along with a red label. It appeared on a [i]lot[/i] of ads, and it soon became apparent to us that Beatrice, whoever the hell it was, was in fact one of the Secret Masters. :) It looked like they owned everything. Then, maybe a year or so later, it all faded away, as if they'd realized they'd tipped their hand and revealed too much. It was, indeed, a little creepy. We'd never realized before just how many things some of these huge multinationals owned; brands we'd thought were in happy free competition with each other were in fact all just fingers of the same hand. But the name, the saying, made it into our games and stayed there to this day. When we find evidence that a villain owns this, and this and yes this as well.. like as not one of us will say 'We're Beatrice' in that same creepy voice. [url="http://www.culturefreak.com/beatrice.html"]I did a little web search, and found out more about 'We're Beatrice' here. [/url] [/QUOTE]

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