03-09-2025, 04:08 AM
GGD wrote:
This thread got me to learn something new today.
I had always remembered the name Gary Gilmore because of his request to be executed by firing squad in the 1970s. And I remembered SNL's "Lets kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas" song.
But the thing that I learned today, was that his last words were "Let's do it", and that was the inspiration for Nike's "Just do it" slogan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmo..._the_media
The founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, Dan Wieden, credits the inspiration for his "Just Do It" Nike slogan to Gilmore's last words.[22]
Whoa.