OT: Help Me Understand Commercials
by Dave on Aug 19, 2008 9:49 PM PDT
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PrintAs I've been watching commercials there have been a couple of commercials repeated that I just don't get. Well...there's one of them I understand but I don't know what they were thinking and a second I don't understand at all. Little help?
The first commercial is the Twix one where the guy and the girl are at a party talking politics. He asks her if she wants to go to his apartment. She says something along the lines of, "Excuse me?!?" That's when the announcer asks, "Need a moment?" Then dude munches his Twix, time pauses, and when the roll resumes he comes back with (roughly), "I thought you were a believer, someone who wanted to blog about their ideals..." to which she responds, "I love blogging!" and then the two leave.
Ummmm...what? Did anyone else have their willing suspension of disbelief shattered there? I almost found the darn thing insulting. Has the commercial writer been anywhere near a blog? I mean, first of all, how geeky-uncool of an invitation would that be? You might as well invite the chica up to play Dungeons and Dragons. Second, how exactly does blogging become a team sport? Are they each going to type with one hand? Or is he going to just sit there and watch her type? Soooooo interesting! Third, blogs are so personal, isn't this kind of like inviting her up to try on your well-worn socks? Plus the verb "blogging" isn't something that you just go do. Have you ever in your life heard someone say, "Hey...let's go blog"?
The second commercial (the one I don't understand at all) is the Geico ad where the caveman dude (who is on his 32nd minute of his 15 minutes of fame) is playing against Billie Jean King. The commercial starts with them coming to the timeout chairs. Caveman dude says, "I can't believe I'm beating Billie Jean King!" King replies, "You're not beating me. You haven't even gotten a serve in." Caveman responds, "You better check the scoreboard!" The camera flashes to the scoreboard, which shows King leading 6-0, 6-0, and 5-0. The Caveman doesn't notice this, rather the Geico signage all over the scoreboard and arena. He asks what's up with that and is told by the umpire that Geico is sponsoring the event. The Caveman stands up and says, "I get it. I quit...but I get it." He then walks off.
I don't understand this. The motto that annoys the Caveman is "So easy even a caveman can do it." But if that's what they were trying to do, when the Caveman looks up at the scoreboard shouldn't it show him ahead? In other words he hasn't even gotten a serve in but somehow the game is being thrown to him because event sponsor Geico wants to prove their motto true? In this case he's being used just because of his Caveman status. But if he hasn't gotten a serve in and the scoreboard confirms he's losing badly yet he still thinks he's winning all that shows is that he's a completely delusional idiot, right? Why does the scoreboard confirm Billie Jean's assertion and not his? What is there to "get" in this case when he says "I get it"?
Other Olympics commercial thoughts:
--I am comfortably sure I will never try Budweiser's "American Ale" no matter how they package it. Just doesn't seem right for a Portlander who grew up on McMenamins microbrews.
--At some point I am going to go into a Subway, tear off one of their Scrabble game pieces on my cup, and then fling pop all over everyone to see if they smile and applaud like they do in the commercial. I wonder if the Subway people will even let me stay there after that.
--I like the crazy Michael Phelps fan chick in that AT+T "no bars" commercial. I don't know why...for some reason I find her super attractive. Is something wrong with me?
--Dave
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by SpyderRyder on Aug 19, 2008 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I know what you are trying to do
Eat that bar tis a Twix that will treat you
Its not food but it will fill your gut
the candy’s wrapped in celophane plastic
I think I prefer nuts!
"it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen." -- Homer
You can't understand unless you BUY THE PRODUCT.
That is the unspoken promise.
BUY
THE
PRODUCT
(whatever it is. most of the time i can’t tell.)
=(_8c(|)
you and Ben
dont blog side by side in some sort of 3 handed blog-a-thon where your left hand is tied to his right hand and then you work the right hand side of the keyboard while he works the left while your composite hand dives into a bowl of doritos to fuel all of this blogging.? This is how I also envisioned posts being made.
Life is exhausting when you are this stupid.
by jonestr on Aug 19, 2008 10:06 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
+1
BRANDON ROY GET WELL SOON (SERIOUSLY DOG)
by Ben Golliver on Aug 20, 2008 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate the McDonald's one where
the kids soccer team wins the game and is cheering with the trophy and then the losing team gets McDonalds and starts celebrating. The WINNING team then gets depressed because the LOSING team has McDonalds.
For any athlete or fan winning is the best feeling, not dumb ass McDonalds making you fat.
by SpyderRyder on Aug 19, 2008 10:12 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
I want
the other team to up the ante by bringing out some Baskin and Robbins or something. Ha Ha! That’s better than McDonalds!
—Dave
Somewhere, Darius Miles is reading this, and drooling.
And not quite sure what that “W” word means.
=(_8c(|)
I KNEW I SAW HIM ON THE LOOSNIG TEAM!!
If you look in the background he is chilling with some fries and a shake. HAHA
by SpyderRyder on Aug 19, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
It's amazing and disgusting, though
McDonalds’ marketing has kids begging to go there. I go to Malaysia now and then (met my wife while on business over there). When we visit her nieces and nephews, where do you think they want to go when us rich Americans (ha!) offer to buy them lunch or dinner. Do they want to go to the night market where you can get curries that make anything over here taste like buffalo drool? Or a good, authentic Chinese restaurant with food you’ve never heard of, but makes you weak at the knees to eat? Of course not – they want to go to Mickey D’s for refried fat and sugar. Image is everything … to the non-discerning. Oh, well – at least they have fun.
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
Oh yeah.
McDonald’s has had a sort of backlash against it (though it still doesn’t seem to stagnate their business) in America, but in foreign countries it’s wildly popular. I just got back from Paris and everybody there loved it. In the US a good two thirds of the people I talk to don’t like it very much (but again, that’s just my circle of friends).
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by CaptainSexyJacob on Aug 20, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
It is good in the sense that that is sooo kids.
I am a grade school teacher. One day the kids earned an ice cream party (were talkin’ Cold Stone, not off brand stuff here). I was grading tests and munching on a little bag of dry pop corn. The kids started complaining, “uh! No fair! You get pop corn!”. That’s what I find funny abut the comercial. Kids always want what the other kids have. Seems to be extra true when it comes to food items.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
by OCBlazerFan1 on Aug 20, 2008 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
how come Mcdonalds isnt the endorsement for what Olympians are eating?
Its about time we saw Michael Phelps on a Big Mac wrapper
"Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch'em in the face, and for what?! For some pimply little puke to treat you like dirt unless you're on their team. Well, I'm better than dirt- well, most kinds of dirt. I mean, not that fancy store-bought dirt. That stuff's loaded with nutrients. I --- I can't compete with that stuff."-- Moe
McDonald's is nothing like what Phelps actually eats.
Not junk-food enough by his standards.
=(_8c(|)
yea if you believe everything you read
are you suggesting micky D’s isnt the nutrional supplement athletes crave? Communist!!!!
"Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch'em in the face, and for what?! For some pimply little puke to treat you like dirt unless you're on their team. Well, I'm better than dirt- well, most kinds of dirt. I mean, not that fancy store-bought dirt. That stuff's loaded with nutrients. I --- I can't compete with that stuff."-- Moe
I saw that a while back
and that is insane. I am a big cycling fan and cyclists put down about 5-6000 calories/day in the grand tours ie: Tour de France, Giro de Italia and Vuelta de Espana and have a tough time doing it as well. They are only about 150-160 lbs as compared to Phelps 190-200 but still that is insane.
by SpyderRyder on Aug 19, 2008 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
yea right and a double cheese burger, fries and a diet coke isnt just as many calories
as what he could otherwise ingest and still make millions more as a sponsor. I dont get it. 8 gold medals and get rich too—- what’s he thinking? Calories are calories. The only thing McDonalds doesnt offer that they shoud is a Centrum with every supersized value meal.
"Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch'em in the face, and for what?! For some pimply little puke to treat you like dirt unless you're on their team. Well, I'm better than dirt- well, most kinds of dirt. I mean, not that fancy store-bought dirt. That stuff's loaded with nutrients. I --- I can't compete with that stuff."-- Moe
I could eat what Phelps eats, so there...
I just wouldn’t look like him. But I would float in the pool without paddling.
Aren't all Advertising people completely out of touch with life anyway?
Doesn’t that explain bad/out of date use of slang and misrepresenting every concievable group/profession/race/gender etc
In the first case, I think the Twix guys are just trying to be hip to the new generation of internet savvy people. And they just did it poorly. Also, wouldn’t the people notice you just took out a twix in the middle of a heated conversation? “Excuse me, you just insulted me and now you’re eating candy!”
I, also, don’t understand the Geico commercial at all. I don’t think there is any hope for it. Maybe they were going for like 12 levels or irony and depth. Not a good marketing strategy. I don’t think a business wants its commercials to confuse its customers. Just give us more babes in bikinis and promises of becoming filthy rich! (Wasn’t there a very short lived sit-com starring the cavemen from these commercials?)
The street lights is on.
If something you like is parodied or discussed
In a commercial. Its already over and you need to disown it now..
"Why would we lie to ourselves dude?"
"Be excellent to each other."
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
The Wisdom of Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan
by GreatOden'sRaven on Aug 20, 2008 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Caveman Commercial
I’m pretty sure that “delusional idiot” is the whole point. He’s that dumb, and yet, Geico is still easy enough for him to use.
That’s the best I can come up with.
Hate to break the news to you Dave, but a lot of marketing guys do drugs and drink a lot when they have no ideas
At least when they are French, and we all know ad agencies love to hire French people. Ad executive and writer Frederic Beigbeder (99 Francs) was arrested in 2008 for sniffing cocaine on the roof of a car in Paris.
I guess a lot American marketers are not much better when they can’t come up with a new campaign. And some of their clients have no idea what ad might be cool for their target group and sell the product. Also, they think their customers are generally dumb and dumber, so they don’t care. The results we can witness on TV every day.
At least that’s how I explain myself the world in my prejudiced mind. Wife, please hand me my Dilbert book.
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
Blog is something the kids love
So mentioning it in a commercial is ‘totally boss’, to quote the street gangs on the corner so liberally.
The Geico one SOUNDS like a joke, but isn’t, but the people who made the commercial didn’t look at it past the surface. It doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Maybe there is a long version we’ve never seen. Both of those commercials bug me.
I get bugged by a lot of commercials, ESPECIALLY now that I got tivo/DVR and they are more rarely watched by me. Just makes the inanity stand out. I can’t wait till I get a HD-TV so the inanity can be crystal clear.
All of the Twix commercials make no sense. I like Twix but no one eats it to think or to take a moment, and it isn’t a good response to a tough question/situation. It makes no sense.
I hate the Vonage commercial where the lame Phone Co. guy argues with the wierd eyebrowed lady, and eventually says “well change is hard and for 100 years the only thing we’ve changed is—” and the lady interrupts and says ‘YOUR PRICES?’ and bumps him off the screen.
What was he gonna say there instead of prices? Why does he set her up so well? What could possibly be a POSITIVE thing there about the phone company?
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY.
Mortimer
I don't get bugged by commercials.
At least not since discovering a device called a remote control.
What I get bugged by is my wife, for constantly switching channels. She can’t stand it.
I haven’t seen any of the commercials mentioned here, with regard to the Twix commercial, it sounds like an updated version of the old “Would you like to come up to my room and see my art collection?” line. The guy has no intent to get on the computer.
"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies
It's the sort of bugged
Where I gotta watch it and be dutifully annoyed. I miss most commercials because of my DVR, and I ain’t changing NO channels for NObody— this is MY damn TV, Timg56. MINE.
The commercial makes clear it is a pickup line, but a art collection can be seen. A pair of people can’t ‘blog’ together. It’s like when the daily comics written by old guys who just wanna golf all day add in a joke about the “I-Phone” or “MP3s” or “blogs” to sound “with it”, when they’re just recycling an old joke but adding in a rad thing the kids love.
I can’t help but analyze the commercials I see. I CAN’T HELP IT.
Mortimer
Dear Mortimer,
you clearly do not know the street gangs on the corner.
Kids don’t “love blog.” In fact, many people in my generation don’t appreciate blogs as much as the baby boomers think because the majority of blogs don’t get read. News anchors, the rest of the media, and people aged 35-60 are just enamored with YouTube and Google and MySpace because it all seems trendy.
--
by CaptainSexyJacob on Aug 20, 2008 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
So my point
was that the commercial is still stupid because it doesn’t accurately connect with a younger generation as initially perceived.
--
by CaptainSexyJacob on Aug 20, 2008 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
And...
…uh, that’s what I was sayin’…?
From the perspective of the people behind the ad, they think saying ‘blog’ instantly connects to younger peoples.
The old man cartoonists who do the daily comics in your newspaper do the same lazy crap all the time.
I just wish us old coots could get into what your crazy generation likes, but that’s the generation gap between you and I.
Mortimer
YEAH THAT'S RIGHT
That WAS your bad.
I didn’t mean to sound annoyed, sorry about that. Because, of course, we agree.
I’m just old is all :-( And I see my time is near, and what have I accomplished with my life? I bitched about a Twix commercial on a sports blog, a commercial no one will remember a year from now, let alone after my passing.
What does it all mean?
Is the meaninglessness the meaning?
Mortimer?
Scoff! I'll bet you aren't even 30 yet.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Not for a few more years
I’m getting there though, whoa boy, I’m gettin’ there…
(sighs, runs hands through thinning hair, unconsciously grabs his aching back)
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but you always remind me of my littlest sister because her name is Annie and when she was a kid she looked very much like lil’ Orphan Annie. And she’s scrappy and spunky, filled with moxie even, just like Annie.
In fact I think you are her spying on me. Tell mom and dad that I don’t care what they think I’m going to be a dancer. IT’S MY LIFE AND IT IS NOW OR NEVER.
Mortimer
Dang it! You found me out. I was hoping to direct mom and dad's
attention to your insane desire to be a dancer in order to keep them from concentrating on my perfectly understandable career goals of professional bungie jumping.
I could probably dig out a picture of myself at that age that looks very much like my avatar. When my mentor, Blue Lizzy, gently suggested I use that avatar I thought he might actually know who I am in real life, or be prescient or something.
Okay, okay. I’ll try to intercede for you with m & d, but you’ll owe me.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Professional Bungie Jumpin'
I think that is one of the nine optional sports being considered for the 2012 Oly’s!
You Go Girl!
You and twiggs are sisters, Morty’s you gals Brother! Wow! It’s like all family man.
"He doesn't let grass grow under his feet when there are points to be had." - Dave
Commercials
are a strong reason why i don’t own a TV.
Seriously… stay away from TV for a year and then come back and watch those commercials… i can feel the brain cells dying.
Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624
by ratbastird on Aug 21, 2008 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm a Bad Viewer
I’ve been watching the Olympics here and there, but apparently not enough cuz some of the ones you mentioned I’ve missed. Here’s what sticks in my mind:
The ATT girl is kinda cute, in a ‘girl next door’ sort of way. I can understand that. Personally, I think the college girl in the Target ads (getting her dorm ready, thanks to Target)..“I’m a math major” is very hot. Just don’t tell my wife, I’ll have to endure some arm pinching.
The Budweiser Clydesdale one, where the horse misses the cut and the dog helps him train is tired. that’s from the last superbowl, if memory serves.
The Sprite one, jumping in the swimming pool/basketball court. I remember thinking it was pretty cool/innovative when I first saw it, but I’ve seen it a million times now.
I HATE the Vonage one! They forget to mention, “Oh, and if you call 911? Yeah, I wouldn’t do that using Vonage..” ;-) I would love to see the Telephone company guy step around the wall and give Ms Vonage a piece of his mind.
The ad for the VW sale going on is clever. Exactly same plot, but different test drivers..they get pulled over by the cop, rinse and repeat.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
-- Unknown
Yeah the sprite one has been going a couple years.
I have a funny story about that one. I was waiting in front of a tv in between two of my games when that commercial came on. Right as the first guy does a flip into the water, this older man next to me grimices and yells “OW.” Then looks confused when he realizes the guy didn’t go splat.
@('.')@
The Twix one
has bothered the heck out of me, especially because he leads into it “Oh, I thought you were a true believer…”, and my initial thought was Cult members love twix? Then I realized no, it had to be that Joining a cult is a good way to meet women…
Jaws were hitting the floor as Greg repeatedly attempted to tear the rim off the backboard...
Or blogging is a good way to meet women.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
by OCBlazerFan1 on Aug 20, 2008 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Blogging is how Dave and I get girls
Dave,
I LOVE THIS POST! I even have to risk getting in trouble at work for typing this just to say I thought the same thing about that commercial last night too. And I thought of you, I wonder if you too have to beat the women off with a thorned stick because of all the love they want to give you from you blogging credentials. Has blogging gone from embarrasing to braggable overnight? If so Dave and Ben are the new G’s on the block.
I do keep a blog on myspace and I will get some random emails from girls saying they liked this story or that one, but only recently have I been able to use that line at parties; “I thought you were a believer, someone who wanted to blog about their ideals…”
Works Everytime. Especially when you are talking with a mouthful of cookie. Stay Classy Twix bar.
And that chick in the ATT commercial has gotten going on in a girl-next-door-type of way, I think I am going to write a blog about my love for her right now.
"It's how you play the Ga-ame..." - Greg Oden with Justin Timeberlake at the Espy's
by BlazermaniacAndy on Aug 20, 2008 9:50 AM PDT reply actions
Geico Caveman
In the campaign Geico alway used to assume that the cavemen are stupid, but actually they are quite intelligent or at least sophisticated. They just want to live their lives, and don’t want to be offended by being called simple guys.
So I could imagine two explanations for this tennis commercial – both not very funny:
A) The caveman is clearly ahead and proud of himself, but Geico is the main sponsor (the umpire is the Geico rep in all the commercials I think) and somehow throwing the game against him. The caveman realizes this when Billy Jean King points out the scoreboard where he is completely down, sees all the ads, says “I get it” and quits the game.
B) Or he is really so dumb that he doesn’t understand he is losing, sees the Geico ads and only thinks Geico is fixing the game to make him lose due to his previous experiences with them. But that would somehow go against the spirit of their campaign.
They make him look a little dumb anyway, cause he he didn’t see all the Geico ads in the first place.
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
That's what I thought
Your A explanation. The game is being thrown to show that a caveman can’t do anything, especially something easy like win a game against Billy Jean King. Of course all the people watching would have to be dumber than the caveman not to realize that the whole thing is thrown. Thus, giving you insight into the advertisers mind. Whatever story or product they are selling, you’re buying. I even give the American Public more credit than that. No wonder the economy is in such a bad state.
Ahhh...I see
So the Caveman really IS kicking the crap out of Billie Jean King but Geico won’t let him win because that would show a Caveman was capable of something, therefore invalidating their slogan. His response at the end about “getting it” doesn’t lead easily to that interpretation (it seems he’d be angrier than that) but it makes sense.
I guess I never thought Billie Jean would lie to us.
—Dave
A round of applause for the advertisers
All of your comments are proof that their ads are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
A Twix bar does sound good right now…
Asked his specialty in the kitchen, Oden paused and said, "Hamburger Helper and tuna fish."
Your parents must be a lot cooler than mine...
They would never let me grow up on any of the local microbrews. Remember Dave, that when all these commercials stress you out, you can just go to that special place in your head where “at the door is a man who will greet you…”
I want to be tucked in by Greg Oden and have him tell us stories about the old days.
Greg Doden really brought the extra D tonight!
I don't get to watch American TV here
and not having to deal with commercials is such a huge plus! I think about how lucky I am not to have to deal with that garbage sometimes. Seriously, more than once I’ve thanked the stars for that.
So you watch tons of garbage game shows instead?
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
Foreign TV
Is either crappy local talk/game shows sandwiched inbetween hours and hours of bad American TV.
Except for England.
Plus most channels in the various countries of Europe turn into porn after 10pm.
Mortimer
Another reason to visit Europe.
I would even be ok if there were no subtitles.
"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies
Yeah, the TV is terrible.
They don’t have 1/5th the commercials here that the States do, but the TV is actually worse than in the states if you can believe it. I try to watch the TV to pick up the language, but I just can’t stand it. They aren’t games shows, but they have panels of famous people (you already have to be famous to get on TV in any kind of role here) watch some videos or eat something, and talk about it. They never have anything interesting to say, they just hope at some point they have the opportunity to be funny. And they are ALWAYS eating on TV. Seriously, at any given time there will be at least 3 out of my 12 channels where people are just eating and saying that it’s delicious (usually not how it is delicious, just that it is delicious). Not even cooking shows, just eating shows. I’m surprised that the Japanese aren’t enormous with the amount of time they spend obsessing about food.
I'd just like to say...
that Billie Jean is not my lover. She’s just a girl who says that I am the one.
… but the kid…
…is not my son.
(cue string glissando, and flashing sidewalk squares)
Everybody now!
"Why would we lie to ourselves dude?"
"Be excellent to each other."
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
The Wisdom of Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan
by GreatOden'sRaven on Aug 20, 2008 3:44 PM PDT reply actions
Geico Tennis Caveman = Bobby Riggs ... maybe
King is most well known for the male vs. female “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match against Bobby Riggs.
We are almost at the 35th anniversary of “The Battle of the Sexes”.
From what I read, Riggs played the role of the male chauvinist to the hilt (kind of like the bad guys in pro rassling).
Caveman is a synonym for chauvinist.
Just guessing.
yes
BRANDON ROY GET WELL SOON (SERIOUSLY DOG)
by Ben Golliver on Aug 20, 2008 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Dave you are in fact
insane if you like the Phelps Phan. I had a strong reaction to her as well. One of an overwhelming desire to get her to shut up at any cost. Other then that I agree with your confusion at the totally insane non-sensical commercials of the day.
He's Coming! Oden Slayer of Giants
On the commercial topic
Does anyone else think groan and laugh at the same time when the sumo wrestlers make an airplane?
@('.')@
The commercials are wildly successful here
The principle I learned in Marketing was if you get people thinking about the product (or politician) it does not matter what they think. They will discuss and remember the name and recognize the product in the store,
Kind of a variant that has developed is if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as true.
Aldridge said. "We feel like we can beat any team. We feel like we can beat the Spurs, Suns, Lakers, Mavericks, whoever any night right now, and we'll still be here when those teams get old and their guys retire. We're going to be here for a long time."
Yeah, they want it to stick in your head
A few years ago while traveling I saw ads on billboards and on TV that said “The most credit card”. The most what? Most used? Most recommended? No, just the most. And it wasn’t some accident or agency with really bad grammar, it was done on full purpose so that this wrong superlative stuck with you.
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
LOL a variant?
That’s awfully scary at the end. You know a rather famous German said a similar thing once:
LinkJoseph Goebbels said the following:
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
* Alternate version: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
* Alternate version: If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
* Alternate version: If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth.
* Alternate version: If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it
So if they are teaching you that in advertising it would explain a lot about why things have gone the direction they have.
He's Coming! Oden Slayer of Giants
D&D come on...
It wasn’t D&D, but I played magic with my GF on the first date… it’s part of the reason she likes me.
Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624
by ratbastird on Aug 21, 2008 2:06 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
If they want me to remember the commercial...
… they need to have attractive, scantily clad women in it.
I might not remember the product, but I’ll remember the commercial.
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