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| WCityMike
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06-12-2003 10:08 PM ET (US)
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Point of order: it's not a streaming QuickTime movie, it's a normal one.
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06-12-2003 10:49 PM ET (US)
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Edited by author 06-12-2003 10:52 PM
ban Yale from subduing it, and it strikes back on its own.
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06-13-2003 12:29 AM ET (US)
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Ah! The corporate giants are telling us we must all be beautiful (and buy their products)
I'm seeing a lot of advertising hitting the net in this manner, or e-mails sent from friends with video files attached. Is this being instigated by the corporations as a kind of viral marketing technique? Are we falling for it?
yawn!
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| hornsofthedevil
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06-13-2003 01:32 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 06-13-2003 01:32 AM
well, i think there are substantially better trargets for your ire TD, than an ad that comically shows the race against getting fat personified by a big bouncing belly. I thought it was hilarious.
AND- its not like its one of Nike's borderline immoral ads("you don't win silver, you lose gold"). Its funny.
I wish more companies would make fun of how fat people are in this country. its fucking repulsive.
run a lap for christs sake.
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06-13-2003 01:51 AM ET (US)
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Well, "horns," I wish more companies would make fun of stupidity. Now *that's* repulsive.
read a book for christs sake. Or better yet, for your own.
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06-13-2003 05:24 AM ET (US)
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06-13-2003 06:19 AM ET (US)
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I live just near Jack The Ripper's stomping ground in London. There's always lots of filming around here for movies, song promos adverts and so on...
Anyway, flatmate tells me that last night Reebok was filming a commercial around the corner, which sounds like it might be part of the same campaign. It involved people in Reebok gear running away from Jack The Ripper clones.
Classy.
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06-13-2003 07:10 AM ET (US)
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I loved this ad when it was on TV, so glad I can watch it on my PC now.
The follow up is better -- the guy gets attacked by his couch and it ends up chasing him down the stairs. It pulls his pants off as he is escaping. When the ads were being aired in the UK, Creative Review magazine did an interview with the ad company that created it (IIRC, they won an award for it) and they said that there was a guy inside the couch making it move.
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06-13-2003 01:30 PM ET (US)
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Deleon, that is precisely my point! Thanks!
Its completey stupid to let your health fall by the wayside and become overweight. Studies across the board show that people who don't excercise regularly have a host of health problems that not only cut their life short, but burden the healthcare system. Diabetes, cancer and the like are directly linked to peoples penchant for overeating and inactivity.
So read a book -and start with one on the anatomy.
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06-13-2003 03:47 PM ET (US)
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The belly looks a lot like the enigmatic ball from the old UK cult TV show "The Prisoner". In the show, it sort of keeps watch on the island's prisoners, hovering and bouncing around, and eventually smothers any would-be escapees into submission. Nice reprisal.
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06-13-2003 04:24 PM ET (US)
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It's funny how many people on BB have mentioned "The Prisoner". I started watching it on KERA 13 when I was too lazy to change it after Red Dwarf and I thought it was cheesy at first, but after 3 episodes I was hooked and jumped into the box set which I highly recommend! Cheaper here? |
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06-14-2003 12:34 AM ET (US)
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For that matter, Asylum's web site also has the sofa ad. |
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