You may know that I periodically get on Drudge’s case for the fact that the adverts on his site often don’t display correctly (which leads me to wonder why companies pay him to advertise on his site). Today, I found the following juxtaposition of headlines ironic: The links are to the following stories: Alabama shooting [...]
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This Superbowl commercial wasn’t funny. It was scary. When it’s coming, and you know it’s coming, it’s not funny. It’s frightening. (It would be like making a campy zombie movie in Hollywood while real live [I mean, undead] zombies were invading America via the East Coast, and had just overrun New York City or something.) [...]
300hp Is Fast
Posted in TV Ads on Oct 5th, 2008
Or so claims the announcer on a new Mercedes C-Class commercial. Last I checked, horsepower was a measure of torque (power), not speed. More hp might get you to a higher speed quicker, but in and of itself it’s not fast any more than yellow tastes good.
Speaking of Advil
Posted in TV Ads on Aug 19th, 2008
I’m really starting to get annoyed with United Airlines’s adds too (he said, during an Olympics Commercial Break). They’re so bizarre. And they’re ruining one of the greatest musical pieces of all time by associating it with such bizarreness.
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