There's a nasty, lazy trend in advertising to jump on a particular slogan or headline bandwagon and ride it until the wheels squeak and start to fall off.
Currently, there are three examples that raise my particular ire. I'll call them the triple blights of "priceless", "got" and "on."
Priceless: "A weekend in Aleppo...$500; a ride on a one-eyed, farty camel...$2.50; 24% APR on this lousy credit card....priceless."
Got: This one's a cinch. The formula is "Got [insert noun]?"
So, "Got Vodka?" or "Got Schlimmer's Homemade Pumpkin Rissoles?" or "Got Black Death?"
On: Probably the one that currently puts my teeth most on edge. The formula is "Get your [insert random word here] on." So "Get your cool on" or "Get your burger on" or "Get your Elmer's Plumbing & Pet Rescue Service on."
Priceless. In fact, bloody useless.
-- PW
Instant advertising
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Instant advertising
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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Re: Instant advertising
Actually, the spoofs on Priceless are often, well, priceless.. . .
Priceless: "A weekend in Aleppo...$500; a ride on a one-eyed, farty camel...$2.50; 24% APR on this lousy credit card....priceless."
Priceless. In fact, bloody useless.
-- PW
(BTW, these are the cleanest ones I could find! )
Regards//Larry
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
PW, ALL the ones you mention put my teeth on edge!
I don't remember the name of the company using this one (perhaps I've subconciously blocked it), it's clothing of some kind--"Get your 'fash' on"! If given the opportunity, I could cause bodily harm to the individual who came up with it.
You may have opened up a long thread here! But maybe not...
Skin-they call me the thread killer-em
I don't remember the name of the company using this one (perhaps I've subconciously blocked it), it's clothing of some kind--"Get your 'fash' on"! If given the opportunity, I could cause bodily harm to the individual who came up with it.
You may have opened up a long thread here! But maybe not...
Skin-they call me the thread killer-em
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Oh yes. Old Navy is the culprit (or at least their agency).PW, ALL the ones you mention put my teeth on edge!
I don't remember the name of the company using this one (perhaps I've subconciously blocked it), it's clothing of some kind--"Get your 'fash' on"! If given the opportunity, I could cause bodily harm to the individual who came up with it.
You may have opened up a long thread here! But maybe not...
Skin-they call me the thread killer-em
I guess they "got their mor on".
This could be the beginning of something big, like a lifetime boycott.
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
Re: Instant advertising
You can run screaming, PW, but you can't hide. This insidious phrase even appears in the motherlode of American Ephemera: here in commentary on an MPC note.On: Probably the one that currently puts my teeth most on edge. The formula is "Get your [insert random word here] on." So "Get your cool on" or "Get your burger on" or "Get your Elmer's Plumbing & Pet Rescue Service on."
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Yeah, Mark...the lights are on but nobody's home. Story of my life. Actually, I've been busy getting my e-mail on."I so totally agree, PW." she gushed; eyes brightly lit, but alas no one was home.
mark I-imagine-this-will-go-whoosh Bailey
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
Re: Instant advertising
The best spoof on Priceless was a film clip I saw once. It is rather risque, but I will quote it nevertheless.
A young man is standing with his girlfriend on her front porch. The both say what a great time they had. Then the young man asks his girlfriend for oral sex. She demures "I can't. Someone will see us." He keeps asking.
Suddenly the lights come on, the front door opens and the younger sister speaks. "Dad said to give him a blow job. Or I should give him a blow job. Or in a pinch, he will come and give a blow job. But for God's sake, please stop leaning on the intercom button!"
Meal in classy restaurant: $75
Wine to get up the courage to ask for oral sex: $32
Father with a sense of humor: Priceless.
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Re: Instant advertising
Absolutely disgusting. Only a complete degenerate would want to watch such filth.The best spoof on Priceless was a film clip I saw once. It is rather risque, but I will quote it nevertheless.
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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Yeah, that's one of the many I didn't post a link to!
A lot were pictures of people inadvertantly, and unknowingly, exposing parts of their anatomy that wouldn't normally be exposed.
A lot were pictures of people inadvertantly, and unknowingly, exposing parts of their anatomy that wouldn't normally be exposed.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
A 'clean' ad, but a most effective one. They should show it on all programming targeting 'teens and young adults'.
Incessantly.
-gailr
Incessantly.
-gailr
THAT was on TV? NO! surely we haven't come to that yet?Absolutely disgusting. Only a complete degenerate would want to watch such filth.
mark but-then-again-why-not Bailey
edited for a typo Gailr would have loved......
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One of my all-time-favorite ads, gailr. Here's another great one. And clean, too.A 'clean' ad, but a most effective one. They should show it on all programming targeting 'teens and young adults'.
Incessantly.
-gailr
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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