Those brand-friendly Top Ten lists

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Tuesday night’s rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman and its Top Ten list reference to a popular soap tagline (one of the top 10 most important things Dave’s mom was supposed to have learned in her first 84 years: “You’re not fully clean until you’re Zestfully clean”) brought to mind the cornucopia of brand references in Top Ten joke writing. August has featured an average of just less than three brand references per Top Ten: Top

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