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 Always fun when a company has to drop a mascot because 90% of the search results are pornographic fanart. She wasn't quite making the numbers they wanted anyway, but the porn was a contributing factor in the decision. Like, people on the internet will creepily sexualize any mascot, but it's usually only a few weirdos. It becomes a problem for the company when the first official image is halfway down the first page of Google results.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Johnny Aztec posted:Didn't Pepsi straight up buy Dr. Pepper several years ago? No, they're owned by Snapple. They contract local Pepsi or Coke bottlers for distribution in places it's not worth having a factory of their own. Edit: Pepsi-bottled on the left (it's the same bottle they use for Pepsi), indie on the right.  Coke's packaging:  Edit again: It's really disappointing being in a place where Dr Pepper doesn't have its own presence, and going to a restaurant that only carries the major brand that doesn't handle Dr Pepper there. No, I don't want fuckin' Pibb. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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bigtom posted:-Having the client in the ad. Usually they can't read for poo poo, sound stiff with marbles in their mouth, and generally do it to feed their ego. Unless you're Frank Perdue or Lee Iacocca, don't do it. Even worse, the client's "adorable" preteen kid. "My daddy has great deals on mobile homes!" They even have the kid on the billboards. I can see having the salesman on the billboard to show he's got an honest face or whatever, but some random ugly kid? Though there is one local ad -- I think for a jewelry store in Longview or Tyler, TX, if you want to try to look it up, I'm sure as hell not going to voluntarily subject myself to it -- starring the wife of the proprietor, with the most grating loving "bless your heart" southern accent ever (think Paula Deen but an order of magnitude more so). And she actually says "bless your heart." It's one of the few ads that makes me immediately change the station.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Isn't "bless his/her heart" Southernese for "that person is a retard? Yeah, it's "if you don't buy our poo poo for your wife ..."
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Essentially, the entire reason is "Employers don't like their employees having power". Because if they have to actually pay their employees half-decently, as unions force them to do, it cuts into their profits.
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Wheeze posted:Speaking of misguided attempts to appeal to the kids these days, here's Chevy's latest press release: sorry for the chatlog posted:the only thing i can definitely interpret Reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIcec_bQss GrandpaPants posted:Incorrect. Cleretic posted:I could honestly see a retelling of Romeo and Juliet done entirely by text messages as a silly little art project thing. Not as a serious attempt to appeal to anyone, more just as an experiment with the text and the medium. Zaphod42 posted:
Chaucer is middle: quote:And prively he caughte hire by the queynte, and this is old english: quote:stop feorran to hror haegstealdmon, hof his agen hreagl hondum up, hrand under gyrdels hyre stondendre, stižes nathwaet, worhte his willan: wagedan buta. The punchline is "churning butter". (Don't wanna ruin the thousand-year-old joke for anybody who hasn't read the Exeter Codex  )
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Karma Monkey posted:Love his poems though! But even in those he talks about his girlfriend's breath reeking. Nah, those were the ones about his boyfriend.
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Ryoshi posted:The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it. I independently invented that for my roommate who had a later-model DS. Cut up an old credit card and bent it into something similar to a thumb pick for a guitar, except with the point in line with the thumb. 
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Crossposted from another thread where I went off on a tangent: One time about ten years ago, I went to the local mall, and wandered into, IIRC, JC Penney. They had a table piled high with catalogs at the door, and so I picked one up on the way out, because why not? I may have wanted to buy something from them in the future. Cue a clerk yelling "Hey! Put that back, it's only free if you buy something!" and picking up the phone to call security. Turns out the store's print catalog, a 600-page advertisement for the store, was being sold for $5 in the store with no signage to warn me of the fact that they expected me to pay for it. I can understand charging $5 to get a catalog mailed to you, that poo poo's heavy, but you'd think the ones in the entryway of the physical store would be free in order to encourage people to see something they like and come back. Nope! I said "okay," put it back. and make it a point to not shop there on the rare occasions I go to the mall now. I'll park in front of that store and walk through it to get in because it's less crowded than the main entrance or the stores I actually shop at, but I'm never buying anything from them again.
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