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I keep on seeing a commercial for Indonesia on BBC News channel. The way they are selling themselves, in some ways, tickles me: Amid the world slowdown, we stand firm. As home to a fifth of global nickel reserves, Indonesia is poised to lead the global...
by gmoke
on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 11:07 AM PST
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Pepsi or Coke challenge. That is the model, the motif, of the Fox chyron that they recently posted that labeled President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” (the chyron: “WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL...
by novapsyche
on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 10:24 AM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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A look at two updates (as well as a current issue) after-the-jump: But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well, perhaps...
by Ed Tracey
on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Between the ubiquitous Super Bowl ads for everything from Dunkin’ to McDonald's and M&M’s, there were two commercials with a significantly more cloying message—a message that allegedly promotes Jesus and claims to be “committed to being scripturally...
by Rebekah Sager
on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 12:05 PM PST
with 364 Recommends
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A couple of weeks ago, I came across a segment on Sam Seder’s The Majority Report where David DePape, the would-be political assassin, gave an interview to a local Fox affiliate (KTVU in San Francisco). As has been established by DePape’s own...
by novapsyche
on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 12:00 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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A boiler-room pitchman w/saturation advertising 40 years on, after-the-jump … But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well,...
by Ed Tracey
on Thu Feb 09, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
with 22 Recommends
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I've been stuck in the hospital for almost two weeks now which sucks on many levels. I have only 1 book to read which I finished days ago.....the Internet via my cell which for motor skill and visual issues is not ideal....and cable television which is...
by CameronProf
on Tue Dec 27, 2022 at 08:22 PM PST
with 39 Recommends
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Remember Glenn Beck? He’s still around and he’s still doing what he’s always done: grifting away. His modern look includes spectacles and a sort of Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Sanders look. Surprising no one, Beck’s evidence-free conspiracy theory...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 06:10 PM PST
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Try as hard as I might there are certain commercial jingles that get stuck in my brain, even years later. Try as hard as I might to try to forget them they are logged in there. I have presented 4 ...
by CameronProf
on Wed Jun 16, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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I haven’t been seeing Tom Selleck’s reverse mortgage commercials too much lately. You know, the ones in which he takes a deep breath and scolds us for thinking that reverse mortgages are a trick ...
by Alonso del Arte
on Thu May 13, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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What does the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore have to do with selling razors?
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by The Marti
on Wed Mar 24, 2021 at 07:30 AM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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Happy Mother’s Day
So often a phrase or song triggers a memory which has been embedded in my brain by the advertising industry. If I say or hear “Oh, boy” I’m transported back to my ...
by side pocket
on Sun May 10, 2020 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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OK, fellow Boomers. Here’s a hard one, but you’ve got plenty of time. When we were kids, it was fairly common for commercial jingles to be an existing song, usually rewritten with product-specific lyrics. I’ve been thinking about this for a few days,...
by StuartEugene
on Mon Apr 06, 2020 at 03:18 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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Electric car ads have been on TV for more than two decades. But nothing like last year, which is nothing like this year, which will be nothing like next year. Let's have a look at some Google and ...
by Mokurai
on Tue Feb 25, 2020 at 04:01 AM PST
with 27 Recommends
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It’s Groundhog Day. Also, a special Palindrome date 02-02-2020. Also, Super Bowl Sunday. Here are a few bits of news and silliness related to this special day, that will make you smile. None them are about trump, impeachment or about politics....
by AKALib
on Sun Feb 02, 2020 at 03:07 PM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Being on disability i have the TV on more than i used to. Usually I have it on as background noise. If a certain commercial comes on TV I cannot dive quick enough to the remote to put it on mute or to change the channel. There are 2 commercials that I...
by BFSkinner
on Thu Oct 31, 2019 at 12:30 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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Tonight at the Superbowl, we will see a gaggle of new commercials, some funny, some goofy, some naughty, some clever, some musical, all eye-catching and all designed to make us pull up our iPads and order them products ASAP. And for many of us, the...
by AKALib
on Sun Feb 03, 2019 at 02:06 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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One thing Detroit, in the 70s and early 80s, should have been known for was its local commercials.
I am going to share two… both are hilarious, and you can still find people, 30 years plus later, who lived thru them, quoting them with regularity....
by BFSkinner
on Thu Oct 04, 2018 at 04:56 PM PDT
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When most people think of local commercials they think of things like this..
But fear not! Not all are that bad.
In fact this Detroit Zoo commercial went viral (Which was hard to do in the early 80s when it was made) and some all over...
by BFSkinner
on Wed Aug 08, 2018 at 01:33 PM PDT
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I can’t believe he ate….
Let’s get Mikey!
Argh… some tv commercials, good (If one can be said to be good) and bad often get stuck in my head and I can’t shake the dang ear-worm?
Has this ever happened to you? Luckily for me it is not...
by BFSkinner
on Fri Jul 07, 2017 at 02:54 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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