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darkhand posted:Insurance companies all have like 3 commercial themes, is weird. Think GEICO had the cavemen and gecko and another one. I think this sort of thing happens with a lot of long-running advertising campaigns.
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U.T. Raptor posted:It happened with the gecko, too. The first couple commercials were about him being upset with Geico because people were mistaking his phone number for theirs and calling his house all the time, then somewhere along the line he started working for them. Because I'm about a hundred years old, I'll bring up the Energizer Bunny ad campaign. The original conceit was that the Energizer batteries in the drum-beating bunny toy were so long-lasting that they sort of uncontrollably wandered off the set of the Energizer commercial and onto the sets of other commercials. Thing was, there was only one original commercial that set up this premise. If you hadn't seen it, you might have wondered why you had watched a shoddy parody of a commercial that was interrupted by a pink rabbit beating a drum. This went on for years after the original commercial aired and it was more or less common knowledge that "oh, yeah, the Energizer Bunny wandered off the set." It wasn't a dumb move, because by god, everyone knew the stupid Energizer Bunny - but it was just sort of weird in a pre-web world how there was a years-long chain of commercials and none of them referenced the original. They were so contagious and media was so limited that the linking thread was carried by their audience.
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MindlessHavok posted:lol if you think there's not already Flo Porn. A little while after the Flo campaign began I caught an old rerun of Mad TV. There's a running set of sketches where staff writer Steven Cragg has cameras follow him around while he gets up to hijinks like bonding with his son or whatever. One episode was him trying to make a sex tape with his wife in secret and letting it "leak" to gain him fame. I realized the wife was played by Flo. The final gag of the skit where he keeps failing to record them for various reasons has him finding a tape where she brings two big black guys to bed and makes sure it's taping. So now whenever I see Flo, I can't help but remember her doing a cucking spit-roast gag on that show.
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She's also in a very early episode (maybe the pilot?) of Mad Men, playing a switchboard operator alongside Kristen Schaal. I don't think either of them were ever on the show again. Somewhere, somehow, there is probably porn of that.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Because I'm about a hundred years old, I'll bring up the Energizer Bunny ad campaign. The original conceit was that the Energizer batteries in the drum-beating bunny toy were so long-lasting that they sort of uncontrollably wandered off the set of the Energizer commercial and onto the sets of other commercials. Thing was, there was only one original commercial that set up this premise. If you hadn't seen it, you might have wondered why you had watched a shoddy parody of a commercial that was interrupted by a pink rabbit beating a drum. This went on for years after the original commercial aired and it was more or less common knowledge that "oh, yeah, the Energizer Bunny wandered off the set." Fun fact: the Energizer bunny was a parody of the earlier Duracell bunny. The Energizer bunny has by far exceeded the Duracell bunny in popularity in the US, but the Duracell bunny still pops up on packaging in Europe.  
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I want to say before the Energizer commercial was a thing there was a Duracell bunny commercial with lots of bunnies drumming on Duracell. Then the Energizer commercial debuted at first looking very similar but then having all the duracell bunnies batteries run out while Energizer kept going. Then they made the second commercial where he didn't stop and wandered off set and into legend.
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Choco1980 posted:I want to say before the Energizer commercial was a thing there was a Duracell bunny commercial with lots of bunnies drumming on Duracell. Then the Energizer commercial debuted at first looking very similar but then having all the duracell bunnies batteries run out while Energizer kept going. Then they made the second commercial where he didn't stop and wandered off set and into legend. You can tell he's the cooler one because he has sunglasses and beach-ready flip flops, a character I can identify with.
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Enos Shenk posted:The same thing happened with that credit card company that has the viking dudes or whatever on their commercials. The original ads was how if you used a different credit company the barbarians would come and pillage your wallet. Now it's just commercials of vikings going LOL SO RANDOM things and makes no sense. http://www.theonion.com/article/nobody-at-capital-one-can-remember-why-it-put-viki-30549
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Kakairo posted:Fun fact: the Energizer bunny was a parody of the earlier Duracell bunny. The Energizer bunny has by far exceeded the Duracell bunny in popularity in the US, but the Duracell bunny still pops up on packaging in Europe. Looks like they took a page out of Camel's advertising book  Joe Camel is the coolest mascot ever.
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Choco1980 posted:I want to say before the Energizer commercial was a thing there was a Duracell bunny commercial with lots of bunnies drumming on Duracell. Then the Energizer commercial debuted at first looking very similar but then having all the duracell bunnies batteries run out while Energizer kept going. Then they made the second commercial where he didn't stop and wandered off set and into legend. Yup. And the catchphrase was "they keep going and going and going..." Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiFQsxGUQOI It directly calls out the duracell commercials. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 04:10 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:Joe Camel is the coolest mascot ever. Dude looks like he's got a scrote for a face. Like his dilz melted right into his balls.
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FutonForensic posted:Dude looks like he's got a scrote for a face. Like his dilz melted right into his balls. It's like the company itself is suggesting that smokers are dickheads
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FutonForensic posted:Dude looks like he's got a scrote for a face. Like his dilz melted right into his balls. Apparently this was deliberate. Like somehow making his head phallic would associate the product with masculinity. Then again that may be an urban legend.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yup. And the catchphrase was "they keep going and going and going..." Looked for a second and found the commercial it was directly parodying from Duracell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNAKgApo72U
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Does anyone else remember when Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz encouraged the company's Baristas to strike up conversations about race relations with customers?quote:Beginning on Monday, Starbucks baristas will have the option as they serve customers to hand cups on which they’ve handwritten the words “Race Together” and start a discussion about race. This Friday, each copy of USA Today — which has a daily print circulation of almost 2 million and is a partner of Starbucks in this initiative — will have the first of a series of insert with information about race relations, including a variety of perspectives on race. Starbucks coffee shops will also stock the insert. Yeah. That was odd. melon cat has a new favorite as of 06:04 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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galahan posted:Exactly, earlier in this thread they linked a tear down of them where they established it's more than 50% weighted non-components to give it a "premium feel" I don't think it was linked in the thread, but it was later announced that those were not beats headphones, but counterfeits from a flea market.
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 "We noticed you like looking at pictures of old radios and mod girls, so why not visit the official Tumblr of scrub-tier retailer TJ MAXX?" I thought, yeah, okay, fish gotta swim and all that, but then it occurred to me that the person whose job it is to run the the official Tumblr of scrub-tier retailer TJ MAXX probably cannot afford to live with fewer than two roommates. I would like to visit the mind of someone who independently made the decision to follow the official Tumblr of scrub-tier retailer TJ MAXX.
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Did tj maxx rape your dog or something
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Pastry of the Year posted:
That's so weird, here in the UK it's called TK Maxx. Why on earth would they change only one letter of the name? (Also, I will hear nothing bad about that shop, I got an Alexander McQueen handbag out of there for £50, saw it online a year earlier for £550. If it's a fake, it's a bloody excellent one)
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Fateo McMurray posted:Did tj maxx rape your dog or something The story of the rape of my dog by scrub-tier retailer TJ MAXX has been thoroughly documented in the "rants and raves" forum of my local Craigslist; additionally, the alt.tjmaxx.fuckyou FAQ is always available and frequently updated at my website: https://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9950
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Irisi posted:That's so weird, here in the UK it's called TK Maxx. Why on earth would they change only one letter of the name? There was another clothing chain called TJ Hughes and they didn't want people to get confused between the two.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Tumblr's recommendations and sponsored ads are completely non-targeted, I'm pretty sure. Watchful-entity's been reblogging a ton of those 'triggered by the slightest goddamn thing so please step on eggshells around me' types of Tumblr user who're getting really tetchy about the jump scare Poltergeist ads, and there's next to zero chance that they're following blogs that would trigger anything near that.
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TJ Maxx is a great place to get cheap headphones if you're like me and destroy yours while hiking/running on a regular basis.
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Marshall's is freaking great if you want good clothes for cheap and I don't see why TJ MAXX would be any different. I'm not sure about Ross though since it's owned by someone else.
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Ross is great for dresses. I love Calvin Klein for work wear, and they always seem to have a ton of it. Whenever I've looked for anything else I've pretty much struck out, but it's entirely possible I've just not been there at the right time. It's kind of the nature of places like that, they just sort of sell what they get. Burlington Coat Factory, on the other hand, always seems to be full of cheap, tacky poo poo, and not even the good kind.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There's nothing like seeing people on the street wearing Beats with the wire not even plugged in My personal favorite is seeing people wearing them on cardio equipment at the gym. Hope you like your earpads smelling like canned rear end forever.
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Amorphous Blob posted:Marshall's is freaking great if you want good clothes for cheap and I don't see why TJ MAXX would be any different. Some people feel that it's really important that other people on the Internet know that they're better than The Poors. 
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Yeah really, I rarely find clothes i like there but I've gotten several nice bags at a steep discount and one scored a pair of nice running shoes (mizunos) for 40 bucks.
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I just got a bunch of really comfy skirts from those two stores, some of them even have usable pockets. There's a lot of overlap between the two stores, I found a lot of the same skirts in each.
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TJ Maxx, Marshall's, and Home Goods are the same company so you find a lot of the same stuff there. Marshall's is more clothing focused, HG is more home decor oriented, and TJ's is kinda in the middle.
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The Altitudes East air carrier conference has an interesting choice of banner
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I didn't know planes had a reverse gear.
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FutonForensic posted:Dude looks like he's got a scrote for a face. Like his dilz melted right into his balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHVsyA9zBw
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Tunicate posted:The Altitudes East air carrier conference has an interesting choice of banner 2 towers? Check A plane? Check September 11? Check
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Crow Jane posted:Ross is great for dresses. I love Calvin Klein for work wear, and they always seem to have a ton of it. Whenever I've looked for anything else I've pretty much struck out, but it's entirely possible I've just not been there at the right time. It's kind of the nature of places like that, they just sort of sell what they get. It probably says a lot about me that most of my clothes are five years old or even older, and that most are from a department store in country I moved away from three years ago.
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I love checking out Ross and Marshalls for the weird sports stuff they get. Traded players, out of date jerseys, whatever. And sometimes you can really find legit good stuff. But their buyers are sometimes really off. Stuff I have seen in Pittsburgh that probably did not go over well: Boston Bruins Stanley Cup merch Pittsburg State University gear (It's in Kansas) San Diego Padres batting practice hats (P logo must have thrown them off)
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bucketmouse posted:My personal favorite is seeing people wearing them on cardio equipment at the gym. Hope you like your earpads smelling like canned rear end forever. Sat through an interesting meeting on music consumer behavioral groups and yeah, most likely, that person does as long as you saw them with those. They are also really likely to own a second pair not for the gym.
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Phyzzle posted:I don't think it was linked in the thread, but it was later announced that those were not beats headphones, but counterfeits from a flea market.
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Hirayuki posted:And surprisingly, the real ones' parts cost about the same. This string of articles is a bad move in marketing (even if I do agree with them). Like you want to chastise a piece of hardware but get a counterfiet without realizing soon enough?. Doesn't that kinda void your expertise?
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