Here’s a rerun, but might be of interest to some folks: MontanaHelpWanted.com. Sometimes the radio commercials are sorta clever and/or cute, but they do work: the phrase “montana help wanted dot com” has been permanently lodged in my brain. “Go, sir, go!” is one of my favorites, and so is the “…yeah, he’s been a computer programmer for a lot of years…” That phrase, though: “…for a lot of years…” sure is an odd way to put it. Usually people say “many years” or simply “a long time.” I don’t know if the folks who created the commercial phrased it that way to stick in people’s memories, or just did it by accident.
Or, it might be because they come from the East Coast.