# Google ads finally pay off - the Columbian Exposition

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**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009 "2006-07-11T12:46:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009/1 "2006-07-11T12:46:26Z")

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I was wandering through a thread and came to the Google ad at the bottom, advertising [America Comes of Age](http://www.americacomesofage.com/), featuring the Johnstown flood, Gettysburg and [the Columbian Exposition.](http://www.columbianexpo.com/BioGeneWilder.asp). I’d just finished reading [The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375725601/sr=8-1/qid=1152621591/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0059801-7915376?ie=UTF8), an amazing book about the Chicago World’s Fair and the serial killer that used it as a part of his spree. What an amazing book! I read it faster than any non-fiction I’ve read in a long time. I like the author’s voice, it very neatly fit with the atmosphere of the late 19th century. He was very good at creating atmosphere, and I had to force myself to not look ahead in the book to see what the mysterious device that “out-Eiffeled Eiffel” was (although it’s promanently featured in the ad for the DVD, so you’ll be spoiled when you see the ad). I had no idea there was a documentary on the fair, read by Gene Wilder, no less! Now I’m all antsy, waiting for the DVD to show up at my door! Thank you, Google ads!

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**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009/2 "2006-07-11T12:47:27Z")

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Followed by the weidest freakin’ assortment of ads imaginable - tensioners, actuators an V-Belts? Hah?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009/3 "2006-07-11T12:50:58Z")

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Thank you for mention this.

I just went to my library’s online catalog, & they have copies.

One should be arriving at my local branch for me, soon.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009/4 "2006-07-11T21:50:59Z")

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Thanks for nothing, singular1. I had just about, ALMOST totally kicked my World’s Fair addiction. Swine!

😃

hh

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-finally-pay-off-the-columbian-exposition/364009/5 "2006-07-11T22:22:27Z")

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_ **NOBODY** _ expects the Columbian Exposition!