Redefining "not catchy"
Heads up, this is a bit of a nothing post with the possibility of a neck strain. Maybe it's the graphic designer in me, but I have to say something. I was surfing around today when I saw this internet banner (standing vertically obviously). I stared for quite a while. Where to start? Do they realize they put the play button over Obama's face? Apparently there wasn't room to put it anywhere else, what with that big, open red area taking up so much room at the bottom. And what the hell is with this 007 reference? Are they trying to date themselves? Why not compare Obama's unwillingness to agree to townhall-style meetings to Charlie Chaplin's evasion of the bobbies? Or call him the biggest panderer, post-Technicolor? I can only hope McCain's ground campaign is being run anything like his web campaign. These attacks really brighten my day.
By Robert - 7/17/2008
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Oh man, this is worth watching: here's the video
The funny part is the version they embed in the web banners has no sound. That's probably for the best, since showing a montage of your opponent with Bond music playing in the background only makes them seem really, really sexy.
I mean these guys are clueless!
That video flawlessly sucks
I see where Al Gore is teaming with T. Boone Pickens on Wind Power. Gore says that he will work to get politicians "online" (pun intended). General Electric is a large part of the equation because they have the technology to produce and transmit the wind generated energy.
Makes Petey smile too - my family has a block of GE stock.
Off the Wall: McCain in a cabinet position?
SecDef maybe?
BTW, Robert - glad to see you up and around and back with us degenerates. The Obama /Ohio focus is a great idea too. Carry on
I can't stop watching it. It seriously makes Obama seem borderline bad-ass.
And some of the content is sheer nonsense: Obama says "No to innovation"!?!
It's as if there was a nationwide contest for the least effective political ad and this was the winner.
This one's equally painful. Does anyone think it's strange that McCain still can't pronounce Barack's name?
What you gonna do when the McCain-iacs run wild on you?
My plan: flee to somewhere that's not Rollator-accessible.
Pretty lame.... looks like he is pandering to the simple minded "base"
"Bear Rack", hes just dissing the man's name on purpose
wait a minute...that was an anti-Obama ad? must have been brought to us by the same people who did "Bad Idea Jeans."
McCain has a hailstone's chance in hell of becoming President. Cant wait to see his campaign's tactics as desperation sets in.
How bout everyone checking in with local gas prices:
$3.89 in Berea taoday
holy shit!
lessee...they had the space invaderesque game.
then the no the dr no reference. and i still love the word clean and nuclear energy in the same sentence. mmmmmmmmmm radioactive waste, perhaps the most toxic substance ever produced by human beings. *drool*
and in the wwe ad, he said "...wrestling is about celebrating our freedom. it's about fighting to be the very best."
really?????
i don't dislike the ads. i just think they are kind of cheesey.
keep on truckin'!
Are they using powerpoint to make their commercials?
Thanks for the head's up. I just emailed the web master and asked him to remove the ad.
Gotta run. Time to hop in my horseless carriage and motor the family out to the Jersey Shore where we'll drink hot toddee's and eat lots of healthy food like steak, butter, cheese and milk.
Ok this is slightly off-topic but SO SO SO FUNNY!!!
Some Commisioner in Oklahoma is facing a tight election race, and he's blaming his reelection woes on a conspiracy betweem the gay community and the "good 'ol boys club" (cause they work together all the time, right??)
But THE BEST part is he wrote a comic book about his reelection that is just priceless. What a great campaign tactic. I'll give ya'll a link to the original blog post I saw at reason with a couple of sample pages, and if you scroll down the comments section, there is a link to the entire book
Link
Wow, Jeff, you got me on this one. That makes the 007 stuff seems down-right professional, at least they're in color.
No dude, 'cause yours is from a presidential campaign. And besides, www.reason.com found it, not me
That said I love the rampant grammatical and spelling errors in the comic book. It looks like a self parody, but I think it's serious.
BTW reason has funny stuff like that all the time. My all time favorite was when they discovered an article by some christian newspaper. Appearantly they have some sort of automatic editting system that automatically replaces certain un-pc words with pc alternatives. They wrote an article covering the olympic track and field trials, were most of the coverage was focussed on the star sprinter, "Tyson Gay."
Well, their software automatically reffered to him as "Tyson Homosexual," or just plain "Homosexual," throughout the article. Some of the best quotes:
"It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me."
"Wearing a royal blue uniform with red and white diagonal stripes across the front, along with matching shoes, all in a tribute to 1936 Olympic star Jesse Owens, Homosexual dominated the competition. He started well and pulled out to a comfortable lead by the 40-meter mark."
"This time, he kept pumping those legs all the way through the finish line, extending his lead. In Saturday's opening heat, Homosexual pulled way up, way too soon, and nearly was caught by the field, before accelerating again and lunging in for fourth place."
And the grand finale!!!!:
"After the race, Homosexual and Dix looked at each other and slapped palms, then hugged."
Truth is funnier than fiction.
Jeff, I'm in tears right now, with co-workers glancing over at me suspiciously.
Yeah, it's a pretty good one!
If you wish to share it with friends (I know I did) here is a URL to the Reason blog entry, with a few more quotes, and a link to the original text:
http://www.reason.com/blog/printer/127271.html
Also, if you scroll down the comments section, one guy has a good story about a typo in a construction contract. The Engineer accidently replaced the "r" in "riggers" with an "n." A secretary had to proof it at the last minute, and of course changed it to "african americans." The client was pretty perplexed when the countract read that the scaffolding would be erected by a team of african americans.
that's pretty funny about the gay auto-change.
it brings laughs, and it also perplexes me. i am shaking my head trying to figure out why they dislike the word gay so much that they would have such a thing in place to begin with. on top of that, as is evidenced by the story, they failed completely to take into account that there are other uses for the word, be it a name or even a *gasp* different meaning!
i think it's just queer behavior.
I just knew that soon the gay issue would resurface.
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This is all some very queer conversation.
On the plus side, The Chiefsource recently was probably linked into a gay network by a web crawler.
HeyJeff,
Thanks man for the Reason dot com link. The Brickbats section about sums up todays society
I was looking for a room in Arlington for Nov 10-11, 2008. I noticed that all the local hoteliers have seen fit to jackup the rates 2x+ to hose all the attending Veterans and Families over "Veterans" ($$$$$$$$/Ka Ching) Day.
Free Market? ////Opportunism
Party ON
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