I don't think I've ever seen gracilis muscles in a television commercial before.

As much as these things involuntarily stimulate the amygdala, I'd rather they not be so easily accessible on television. I have concerns about my boys' perspectives and expectations of women becoming perverted.

P.S. If anyone tries that sandwich, let me know how it goes. It looks pretty tasty, and I'm glad they're offering an un-battered, un-fried fish sandwich.

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^lucky760:
>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^lucky760:
GIF isn't pronounced JIF, dummy-heads!

I know! I always have been pronouncing it with a hard "G", not a soft "G". If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft "G" then it would be spelled with a "J"!

Exactly. It's not called the Jraphics Interchange Format.
They'd probably also call that other image format "gay-pegs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation

According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say "Choosy developers choose GIF", spoofing this brand's television commercials.

>> ^lucky760:

>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^lucky760:
GIF isn't pronounced JIF, dummy-heads!

I know! I always have been pronouncing it with a hard "G", not a soft "G". If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft "G" then it would be spelled with a "J"!

Exactly. It's not called the Jraphics Interchange Format.
They'd probably also call that other image format "gay-pegs."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation

According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say "Choosy developers choose GIF", spoofing this brand's television commercials.

Chimp attack 911 call: 'He's ripping her apart'
By Stephanie Gallman
9:09 a.m. EST, Wed February 18, 2009

(CNN) -- A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police.

"He's ripping her apart," Sandra Herold, 70, tells dispatchers about her pet, Travis.

With the chimp squealing in the background, Herold cries out, "He's killed my friend!"

The victim, Charla Nash, 55, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after the chimp, once featured in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, attacked her Monday afternoon, police said.

McDonald's Drops 'Hammurderer' Character From Advertising

March 6, 2002 | Issue 38•08

OAK BROOK, IL—Bowing to outcry from consumers and parents groups, the McDonald's Corporation announced Monday that it is discontinuing its new advertising mascot, "The Hammurderer," a mischievous, homicidal imp who kills McDonaldland characters and takes their sandwiches.

Developed by Chicago advertising agency DDB Needham, the Hammurderer made his debut two months ago and has since appeared in a series of Saturday-morning television commercials, as well as on Happy Meal bags and activity placemats. All appearances by and references to the violent, ill-tempered prison escapee will be dropped.

"Over the years, McDonald's has successfully introduced a number of new characters whose defining characteristic is a certain measure of comical, criminal intent," said Andrew Perlich, McDonald's vice-president of promotions. "Such shady characters as The Hamburglar, The Goblins, and the bloodthirsty pirate Captain Crook have all fit nicely into the McDonald's advertising universe. We had every reason to believe that the Hammurderer, with his long rap sheet of burger-related crimes and his signature cry of 'Stabble Stabble Stabble,' would take his place in this proud lineage of McDonaldland mischief-makers."

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27899

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Life, cereal, TV, television, commercial, spot, ad, advertisement, kids, boys, children' to 'Life, cereal, TV, Mikey, boys, children, john gilchrist, 70s, 1972' - edited by kronosposeidon

>> ^rasch187:
Ad campaigns are not in themself this important, the real target of this disagreement has to be people. And not the people who sponsored or publicly endorsed this message, but the people who let their personal opinion on human equality be influenced by televised commercials.


Bravo.

This is a superb and thought provoking observation that never ever occurred to me before I read your post.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Ad campaigns are not in themself this important, the real target of this disagreement has to be people. And not the people who sponsored or publicly endorsed this message, but the people who let their personal opinion on human equality be influenced by televised commercials.

Ad campaigns are not in themself this important, the real target of this disagreement has to be people. And not the people who sponsored or publicly endorsed this message, but the people who let their personal opinion on human equality be influenced by televised commercials.

It's not a long article. I'll just post it and save you guys the click:

Obama is Stoking Racial Antagonism
by Rush Limbaugh

I understand the rough and tumble of politics. But Barack Obama -- the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change -- has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.

Mr. Obama's campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering.

Here's the relevant part of the Spanish-language television commercial Mr. Obama is running in Hispanic communities:

"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with . . . the intolerance . . . they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much."

Then the commercial flashes two quotes from me: ". . . stupid and unskilled Mexicans" and "You shut your mouth or you get out!"

And then a voice says, "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote . . . and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families. John McCain . . . more of the same old Republican tricks."

Much of the media that is uninterested in Mr. Obama's connections to unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright have so far gone along with the attempt to tie me to Mr. McCain. But Mr. McCain and I have not agreed on how to address illegal immigration. While I am heartened by his willingness to start by securing the borders, it is no secret that we have fundamental differences on illegal immigration.

And more to the point, these sound bites are a deception, and Mr. Obama knows it. The first sound bite was extracted from a 1993 humorous monologue poking fun at the arguments against the North American Free Trade Agreement. Here's the context:

"If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine 'cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do -- let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."

My point, which is obvious, was that the people who were criticizing Nafta were demeaning workers, particularly low-skilled workers. I was criticizing the mind-set of the protectionists who opposed the treaty. There was no racial connotation to it and no one thought there was at the time. I was demeaning the arguments of the opponents.

As for the second sound bite, I was mocking the Mexican government's double standard -- i.e., urging open borders in this country while imposing draconian immigration requirements within its own borders. Thus, I took the restrictions Mexico imposes on immigrants and appropriated them as my own suggestions for a new immigration law.

Here's the context for that sound bite: "And another thing: You don't have the right to protest. You're allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. You're a foreigner: shut your mouth or get out! And if you come here illegally, you're going to jail."

At the time, I made abundantly clear that this was a parody on the Mexican government's hypocrisy and nobody took it otherwise.

The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts they used in order to create a commercial of distortions. Their hoped-for result is to inflame racial tensions. In doing this, Mr. Obama and his advisers have demonstrated a pernicious contempt for American society.

We've made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.

Personality I don't care too much about Dinesh, although his community does spill over onto my blog. I recently felt inclined to help people learn about the theory of evolution.

Although I tend to blog a lot about politics, My AOL blog is for Current events, news, culture, science, religion, activism, environment, war..you name it.

The problem I've been having is that after nine months sans TayTV I've forgotten what type of videos I'm looking for and I've forgotten how to present them to an audience. The Neo-con commentary is only a small portion of my daily problems with this blog. I find myself censoring my posts to avoid mass hysteria and a trip to an American gulag (yes, i've been threatened with that.)

I remember when people asked why I started the video blog I would say "You can do a lot more with 30 minutes on the internet, then you can spending 30 minutes in front of a TV."

No matter how low they price the next HDTV the younger generation has abandoned TV, viewership worldwide has already started to decline, people don't want to spend a third of their down time watching programmed television commercials. I've felt we can be doing more productive things with our time. This consumer culture I grew up in is out of control and the internet feels like the right place to start fixing it.

I remember when people asked what I planned to get out of TayTV I would say, "the opportunity to work online, so that I never have to return for another shift at my day job" - The labour I put into online video sharing, possibly combined with my lunacy, landed me this golden opportunity quicker then I expected. However I may have squandered it. Which is why I have come out and started this blog topic. If I'm to fix this I will need help of the sift, which I will only accept after it is thoroughly discussed and we find a way for the Sift to benefit and grow from this experience.

JohnnyMackers: http://worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html says: "William Shatner, Mr. T, and Verne Troyer (coming soon) are asking, in a series of national television commercials: ‘What’s Your Game?’ The answer, ‘fool’, is World of Warcraft..."

I'm sure you'll recognize this song from about 2389720 commercials...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddybears_%28band%29 :

"Cobrastyle has been used in the following places:

* by Heineken in their Meet You There advertising campaign, which debuted worldwide in Singapore.
* featured in the popular video game FIFA 06
* played at New York Giants games at Giants Stadium
* advertising for the soft drink Tab Energy
* on an episode of HBO's Entourage
* on an episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy in November 2006
* as an official theme song for WWE SummerSlam 2006 pay-per-view event
* featured on the Employee of the Month soundtrack
* appears in a television commercial advertising the film called No Respect
* appeared in an episode of the American reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
* appeared in the 2006 film Man of the Year starring Robin Williams.
* appears in a trailer for the film Epic Movie
* appears in the new television commercial for a FOX Network series, Bones.
* appeared in the 2004 film After the Sunset starring Pierce Brosnan.
* appeared in the 2006 film The Benchwarmers starring Rob Schneider.
* appeared in the 2005 film The Honeymooners starring Cedric the Entertainer.
* appears in American Eagle Outfitters Stores promotional store music playing on the TV.
"

It's quite fun though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane_%28Bring_It%29

"Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" is the first single from Cobra Starship, the alter ego of Midtown's Gabe Saporta. The song also features William Beckett of The Academy Is..., Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds. The song gets its title from the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane, and was featured on the film's soundtrack and during the end credits of the film. The music video premiered in the summer of 2006, aptly in time for the premiere of the movie. The video was a quick hit on both the internet and mainstream media, and is featured in the television commercials promoting the film.

The video shows Cobra Starship (Gabe Saporta) walking through Honolulu International Airport, acting as if they were villains sneaking snakes on board in their suitcase and guitar case. Peter Wentz of Fall Out Boy makes a cameo appearance at the 1 minute and 45 seconds mark, talking on the phone nervously as the band members pass ominously. Samuel L. Jackson also makes a cameo appearance at the 2 minutes 16 seconds mark, lowering his shades and eyeing the band members as they pass, then returning to his 100 Bullets comic. He is also seen wearing the unofficial Snakes on a Plane T-shirt designed by webcomic artist Jeffrey Rowland (with snakes flying an airplane) here. The video ends with a sign for South Pacific Airlines Flight 121 as the band boards the plane, the same flight as in the film.