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ads that make you think your head will explode
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| fake ads... |
| posted by: publius |
12:51 7.17.10 |
that make you think your head will exploid...
but it a genius, awesome-y way...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/17/alt-1977-modern-retro-technology
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| for a minute ... |
| posted by: squisshy |
18:25 7.9.10 |
in perusing this thread, i thought publius's 6/13 entry read "spark your way to a ripped body!" and i thought, "Tell me MORE!"
not that i have time for that these days. |
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| another one that's not an ad.... |
| posted by: publius |
14:05 7.9.10 |
i received a "tip" about this from urban daddy:
http://www.urbandaddy.com/
urban daddy is a bit too slick and smug for its own good, but it does actually come up with some good recommendations for things to do in gotham...
but today they recommended this:
http://prisonblues.com/
this makes me homicidal. i have no problem with prisoners working and producing goods produced on the outside, but to turn them into a hip commodity is a step too far in my book...
"made on the inside to be worn on the outside" indeed...
though it does give me a chance to use a phrase you don't hear all that often.
shame on you oregon. shame on you.
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| spank your way to a ripped body! |
| posted by: publius |
21:25 6.13.10 |
(just watch the video - i just saw it on tv...fox soccer channel i think)
https://www.sw4men.com/flare/next
aside from the absurdly masturbatory and pornographic nature of the device itself (note that there are no women in the video...presumably there is another device with different...errrr...dynamics for the ladyfolk), what i really want to know is...
why is this site hosted on a secure server?
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| publius 1/10/10 |
| posted by: horsebeater |
11:28 3.4.10 |
| getting an education is like a silver mine |
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| no question about that.... |
| posted by: publius |
15:26 3.2.10 |
all i can really say is:
five
five dollar
five dollar foot long |
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| i've lost count.. |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
14:57 3.2.10 |
...of the number of conversations i've had:
(a) about the 5 buck box taco bell commercial, and how much somebody hates it.
(b) about how the fact that we were having the discussion means taco bell has created a very, very successful ad. |
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| the five buck box |
| posted by: publius |
13:05 3.2.10 |
| it rocks, it rocks |
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| brinks home security |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
23:13 3.1.10 |
you've all their tv ads.
comely young woman, sometimes a teen and sometimes a mom, is in a beautiful suburban home only to be rudely interrupted by a (always strangley) nordic-looking man who attempts to break-in.
siren ... man runs off ... father-figure from brinks calls ... woman saved.
well, i guess they're looking for a new demographic.
because tonight they added a new wrinkly: comely 30-something, hair drenched with rain, ending a first date on the doorstep of her (still beautiful and huge) suburban home. when they are about to kiss, she says "i had a great time, but i just got through a bad breakup". her date is wonderfully understanding and inside she goes.
but wait! there's another (strangely nordic-looking) man lurking in a car. and as soon the date drives off ... you guessed it! he kicks in the door.
siren ... man runs off ... brinks phone call.
and then we learn the awful truth: it WASN'T a scary stranger. it was her ex-boyfriend!
so, to recap: it's not just strangers who are out to get you, it's also your ex-boyfriend!
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| taco bell: the new subway? |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
21:47 1.21.10 |
is this a joke?
http://jezebel.com/5438814/taco-bells-drive-thru-diet-isnt-really-a-diet-after-all |
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| confused |
| posted by: publius |
16:33 1.10.10 |
can someone explain this ad to me:
i clicked through once and it just took me to a page where you select your desired degree and it will return a list of "schools" offering that program.
but i don't understand the imagery in the original banner ad.
are all of the careers underground because you can't quit your current job and need to be sneaky about getting a new degree which will lead to you leaving your current job?
does it have something to do with the industriousness of ants?
does anyone else look at this and see a complicated system of stomachs digesting degrees (i'm also reminded of the multiplicitous dicks in the george washington video)?
what exactly is sitting right at ground level at the entrance to this tunnel complex? is it a log? can we assume that in plan it somewhat pancake shaped, and that the section cut happens to be through a hole at its center?
where do the passages that lead off the screen go to? more degrees? masonic hideouts?
clearly this ad has me more than a bit confused. and seeing as how in the last two weeks i have burned through all 3 seasons of mad men (not really worth the time) i feel like i have at least a passing acquaintance with what may or may not work in an ad.
color me stumped.
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| get ready for... |
| posted by: publius |
10:51 8.6.09 |
"the shack"...
http://velonews.com/article/96367/get-ready-for--shack--attack |
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| yes, i posted that tidbit here... |
| posted by: publius |
16:54 7.23.09 |
because of our discussion about radio shack in this thread last december...when horsebeater posted that same onion article...
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| funny you should mention radioshack... |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
16:00 7.23.09 |
one of my favorite onion articles ever:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how
though, for the record, there's a radio shack on milwaukee near my el stop and i'll be damned if i haven't stopped there 3 or 4 times this year and found whatever obscure electronics item -- usually an adapter or power cord or something -- i was looking for. |
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| radio shack.... |
| posted by: publius |
12:56 7.23.09 |
will be sponsoring the cycling team which will be headed by lance armstrong next year...
i guess they're selling a lot of....whatever it is they sell...
http://velonews.com/article/95712/lance-armstrong-to-race-for-team-radioshack-in-2010 |
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| There could be some truth to the Rolex aspect |
| posted by: spacehippie |
11:24 1.7.09 |
| Perhaps the exquisite steel band of Owen's Rolex Submariner was what prevented him from slitting his wrists all the way. |
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| buy a rolex, save a famous life... |
| posted by: publius |
09:22 1.6.09 |
this has prank written all over it...but if it is actually true...
good lord.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2009/jan/06/rolex-watches-owen-wilson |
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| shop 'til you drop! |
| posted by: publius |
10:29 8.31.08 |
i just saw a discover ad which starts with shots of lots of fancy electronics (big flat screen tvs, of course) in fancy homes with voiceover...
"we're a nation of consumers....and there's nothing wrong with that. the only problem is, there's so much cool stuff, it's easy to get carried away".
this particular brand of retail therapy brought to you by the discover card.
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| productivity enhancers... |
| posted by: publius |
18:49 1.20.08 |
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| wait as second! |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
16:33 1.20.08 |
| assets are fixed, but liabilities are a nightmare! |
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| breakdancing kid... |
| posted by: publius |
15:29 1.20.08 |
in bourgeouis black family...if you've seenit , it you feel my pain.
i think there should be a law against ads with "cute" little kids in them...most particularly when they're talking pecociously about investment options for their parents, but also just in general ("it's the mirrors!")
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| i can't tell you how many time |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
13:08 12.31.07 |
in my life i walked past a radio shack and wondered just how the hell it stays in business.
though i will say this, they seem to be the "minute mart" of the electronics industry...that is to say they've always (on the 2 or 3 times i've gone there) had an obscure charger or battery pack or wire or cord that i wasn't even sure was being produced.
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| this is one of my more favorit |
| posted by: horsebeater |
10:30 12.31.07 |
| http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how |
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| radio shack |
| posted by: publius |
11:31 12.2.07 |
the saccharine one with the old lady and the little kids who send over a conglomeration of radio shack products with them singing "hark, the herald angels". i think it's mostly the shrill rendtion of the carol that annoys me, but i basically have to hit the mute button and turn away from the tv every time it comes on (which is quite often).
as an amusing (to me at least ) side note on this ad...the first time i ever saw it was in a bar with my girlfriend. the sounds was off, and yet for some reason i could help but commenting "that old woman is going to die". |
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| "look there's a moose, get me |
| posted by: publius |
14:50 11.20.07 |
i saw this ad for the first time when i was drunk with my brother last night and we couldn't believe that we had actually heard the lyrics correctly...this ad makes me think my head will explode, but in a good way...i like the randomness of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0X1peEgTqw&feature=related
http://www.cws.net/blog/2006/12/look-theres-moose-give-me-noose.html |
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| "when you turn your car on... |
| posted by: publius |
16:09 9.30.07 |
| does it return the favor?" |
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| nice to see... |
| posted by: publius |
18:36 8.12.07 |
a victory for the quality of urban life over unbridled capitalism.
odds that something like this would happen in the us? just shy of zero, i'd say...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2146769,00.html |
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| amen brother! |
| posted by: publius |
21:40 7.20.07 |
http://www.iphatigue.com/
found this link on phineas' blog, which you should all check out...
http://nocommercialpotential.net/ |
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| mount sinai... |
| posted by: publius |
04:15 6.24.07 |
in the nyt magazine this weekend there is an ad related to prostate treatments at mt. sinai. the background image is a lovely shot of some backpacker types reaching the summit of a mountain as the sun goes down. and in huge letters over their heads it says:
PROSTATE CANCER SURGERY SO EFFECTIVE, EVEN WOMEN CAN FEEL THE DIFFERENCE.
this had me a bit intrigued. i didn't quite know what to make of it. i had some distinctly un-catholic thoughts, but i figured there must be some subtle, clinical explanation....but then i read the smaller print text at the top of the ad...
"with traditional prostatectomies, one of the possible side effects is impotence. which can be devastating to any relationship....."
so the headline was pretty much dead on. mt sinai's prostate cancer surgery is so effective that she will indeed be able to feel the difference, because SHE'LL BE ABLE TO FEEL A BIG HARD COCK INSIDE OF HER instead of whatever other alternatives once-impotent prostatectomy sufferers came up with to replace their regrettable floppiness.
i think it's only a matter of time (and a fine time it will be) when ads such as this start blatantly using the word RAMROD. now that, my friends, is what i call progress. |
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| this one isn't an ad... |
| posted by: publius |
20:29 1.24.07 |
but listening to it made me boderline homicidal with a side of wanting to stick needles in my eyes...and since misery loves company...
http://trafficsau.de/stuff/heyya.mp3 |
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| this isn't one ad... |
| posted by: publius |
14:15 11.12.06 |
| but pretty much the collective effect of all of the ads which feature peyton manning. the guy is such an incredible stiff...a great player he may be, but watching his mastercard ads makes me want to start cutting off my own fingers. |
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| this isn't one ad... |
| posted by: publius |
14:14 11.12.06 |
| but pretty much the collective effect of all of the ads which feature peyton manning. the guy is such an incredible stiff...a great player he may be, but watching his mastercard ads makes me want to start cutting off my own fingers. |
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| cougar |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
17:28 11.6.06 |
there's a few things that i like about him.
1) his songs have remarkable "staying power." say what you will, but "jack and diane" and "cherrybomb" and "little pink houses" will always elicity a slightly-below-audible "awright!" from me when they come on the radio. they still sound good.
2) he was a four pack a day smoker. four packs a day. that is almost inconceivable to me. i feel incredibly bad, and incredibly guilty, if i hit a half a pack a day. four packs a day. that's basically a smoke every 10-12 minutes over a long day.
i don't know what this adds. but i thought i'd just throw this in there. |
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| just to comment on "cougar" |
| posted by: squisshy |
17:22 11.6.06 |
i hate those fucking ads. in my opinion, mellencamp used to have something to say about america, and whether one agreed or disagreed at least you could respect the fact that he was getting his views out there. now it turns out that his views, when boiled down, amount to "buy a chevy." or at least that's the way he's letting them be represented. what an ass. and it was pretty pathetic that fox made us sit through that -- live -- before a series game. i mean, let's keep the commercials to the commercial time, please.
i know i'm chiming in late on this but didn't realize this thread existed and have been bothered by this campaign since it started. i find it pretty insulting given that the images superimposed over that crappy tune have nothing to do with trucks and are not even logically or thematically consistent. it's just a pathetic attempt to rip-off notable moments in american history, and "cougar" provides the soundtrack. |
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| wow |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
15:29 11.6.06 |
this song is like the tabula rasa of fan-made youtube videos
here, the young man demonstrates how very sad he is to live in a mcmansion with crap finishes.
including, i presume, a leaky faucet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysa9tcoGi9g |
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| maybe this ad doesn't quite fi |
| posted by: publius |
14:58 11.6.06 |
but i was still kind of sad to see it.
there's a new ad out for some video game called "gears of war" which is set to the song "mad world" from the donnie darko soundtrack. i know nothing about the game aside from the clips in the ad, but "mad worold" is one of those songs that so characterizes the movie it came from as to be inseparable from it.
i started out being annoyed that the song had been co-opted, but then realized that i don't care all that much. plus the video game footage works pretty well set to the music. but then again almost anything works well set to that music (just spend some time on youtube - it's a cottage industry, setting videos to that song). i've gone running while listening to that song, been pissed off while listening to that song, been completely relaxed listening to that song...it really is something special...
so yeah...gears of war...whatever... |
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| sports guy |
| posted by: horsebeater |
09:40 10.31.06 |
the sports guy roundly mocks the cougar ads in several of his columns / mailbags. his take after the world series:
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That reminds me, we didn't get a breakout promo for a new Fox show this month (although "Justice" feels like it's about to break into an SNL sketch at any time), but after everything's said and done, we'll remember these playoffs for four haunting words: "This is our ... country." We couldn't get away from the song all month in the Chevy ads, and about 109 days after it had become completely intolerable -- seriously, what does Katrina footage have to do with me wanting to buy a Chevy? -- they made us wait over a minute before Game 2's pregame performance, which would have been the most horrifying moment of the playoffs if not for Bob Seger's teeth on HDTV. I made a joke in a previous column about how John Mellencamp was gunning to replace Seger as the sellout rock artist of his generation, but this has taken on a life of its own.
In fact, I even spent a few minutes on his Web site recently hoping to find SOME explanation, even if it was something like, "Guys, I'm sorry, I'm going through a bad divorce, my wife took everything, it was either do these Chevy ads or declare for bankruptcy." But here was his actual take on the song, courtesy this weekend of the Detroit Free-Press, which reported that a message on his Web site said: "I wrote this song to tell a story about some of the challenges our country faces and how our beliefs and ideals can help us meet them, a message of hope and tolerance. It's a song that is all about standing up for the working people who are the backbone of our nation."
Here's how that same message reads on his Web site right now:
"About a year ago, I wrote this song to tell a story about some of the challenges our country faces and how our beliefs and ideals can help us meet them. This partnership with Chevy -- an American company that is creating jobs and supporting our communities -- makes perfect sense for a song that is all about standing up for the working people who are the backbone of our nation."
Hmmmm ... Quote No. 1 sure reads differently than Quote No. 2! But let's assume that he meant everything he said in Quote No. 2, and that he's not just shilling this song to make money and promote his new album that comes out in four months. And let's factor in his outspoken views against the war in Iraq and our own government over the past few years (explained in this open letter). What does any of this have to do with a Chevy Silverado? He can't possibly expect us to believe the "partnership with an American company" angle, right? So was he thinking, "I'm not getting my political message across, maybe I'll do it secretly through a Chevy ad?" Does he have a master plan to use these never-ending ads to increase his visibility, then use that visibility to take more shots at the government? Or am I putting way too much thought into this subject because they won't stop showing the ads and they're beginning to drive me crazy?
I don't know the answer, but one thing's for sure: "From the East Coast to the West Coast, down the Dixie Highway back home ... this is our country ... I'll take the check in cash please, in unmarked $100 bills ... this is our country ... "
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| posted by: hlk_rumsey |
05:44 10.31.06 |
| come on down to arlington chevy for some O'-Savings-Bin-Lovin! |
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| i for one... |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
22:32 10.30.06 |
think it's well past time for a rosa parks "sale-a-bration".
but, besides that, i couldn't agree more.
the most amazing thing? i have seen that ad 100 times and have no recollection of any of those images. all i can think about is how much i fucking hate that song. |
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| exhibit a |
| posted by: publius |
21:28 10.30.06 |
the near ubiquitous (at least on sundays during football) advertising holocaust in which john (i used to be a cougar, but now i just suck) mellencamp whores for all he's worth for chevrolet while a stream of images from the last 50 years are shamelessy co-opted in an effort to get people to buy trucks. "our country" indeed.
my roommate and i have been cringing every time this damned thing comes on (that's a lot of cringing)...at least we're not alone on this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/business/media/30carr.html |
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