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Capital One’s Vikings…

March 23, 2012

– – I, for one, enjoy a good creative anachronism, and the Capital One vikings seem oddly at home in this election year, even if they do have seemingly-British rather than Danish, Scandinavian, or by default Germanic accents.  We’ve seen these highly-visible Visigoths at places like New Orleans, Vegas, New York, and Washington, D.C….here, apparently checking out some dinosaur exhibits at the Smithsonian.  They even formulate a public policy agenda of “No new axes!”  Now that’s a slogan we could live…or die by!  

Appearing at times with goats, a donkey, or hairy children, perhaps these vikings are the shape of future retro…