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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MorganFreeman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 8:23pm
See? I don't even have it anymore. Can someone post a No More Tears baby shampoo commercial to celebrate?
You owe the companies nothing. You don't owe them any courtesy. They have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hootman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 8:24pm
Cool heads need to prevail...Morgan is now a newbie. Welcome!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MorganFreeman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 8:28pm
Thank you. Seems if I don't crawl before I walk someone's gonna break my legs in here. But then if advertising doesn't make you want to flip out and burn things, you might not have a pulse, so I assume I'm in good company.
You owe the companies nothing. You don't owe them any courtesy. They have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Kelly1968 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 9:01pm
I like Christmas ads, myself.  The only thing about them that bugs me is when they continue to show them on TV after the holidays are over.  I remember several years ago when I was a teenager, there was a Christmas ad that continued to air until February!  It featured a dog barking to the tune of "Jingle Bells."   My Mom and I saw it and she said, "They're kind of behind with their commercials, aren't they?"  LOL!  It was almost Valentine's Day!  Other than that, I like Christmas commercials.  Christmas is my favorite holiday. 
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That's when the season used to officially begin for me too, but it had to be the old Santa that spelled out "Noelco" when he rode away.
Since Christmas has been renamed "Holiday", I don't think he spells out anything anymore.
 
Originally posted by Hootman Hootman wrote:

I have to see Santa on the Norelco razor sliding down the hill.
I will change channels whenever I see an expensive car with a bow.
 
 
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Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

That's when the season used to officially begin for me too, but it had to be the old Santa that spelled out "Noelco" when he rode away.
Since Christmas has been renamed "Holiday", I don't think he spells out anything anymore.
 
I see you're from Statesboro, Ga.
 
I'm curious.... what are the symptoms of the Statesboro Blues?
 
How do you know when you have them?
 
Are they different from the regular old everyday blues?
 
And if so, in what way?
 
 
 
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
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C'mon, man!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Neil R Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 2008 at 4:00am
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

That's when the season used to officially begin for me too, but it had to be the old Santa that spelled out "Noelco" when he rode away.
Since Christmas has been renamed "Holiday", I don't think he spells out anything anymore.
 
I see you're from Statesboro, Ga.
 
I'm curious.... what are the symptoms of the Statesboro Blues?
 
How do you know when you have them?
 
Are they different from the regular old everyday blues?
 
And if so, in what way?
 
 
 
 
1. I fear that's a question that can only be answered by the Allman brothers.
 
2. If I ever lose them I'll tell you what that feels like
 
3. Unlike ordinary blues they can only be chased away with gallons and gallons of dry martinis, but the ingredients can't be sold here (except for the olives that is)
 
4. I guess that's covered by number 3
 
But there's a lot about Statesboro that you can't find anywhere else, and plenty of reasons to come and visit, for instance during the annual....well we really don't have anything, but there's a Walmart with a McDonalds in it
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In Pennsylvania, nothing says "Christmas is here!" like the classic PA Lottery Christmas commercial that's been running for many years. Tried to find it on Youtube or other source but no luck, so a description follows (doesn't do it justice, if I find a vid I'll post it):
 
It's a nighttime, downtown street scene, with snow falling and lighted shop windows and Christmas decorations.
 
A group of carolers is singing a variant of "Twelve Days of Christmas" but with lyrics extolling PA Lottery games...the only one I can remember now is, instead of "five gold rings"' they sing "five Cash Fives..."
 
Funniest part is, while the carolers are singing, this middle aged guy comes out of a building and walks across the street to a little newsstand, where he hands the clerk a Lottery scratchoff ticket and says, "Merry Christmas, Rita!" The lady has an enraptured look as she stares at the ticket, while her coworker comes over, looks over her shoulder at the ticket, and says to the giver "What a great gift!"
 
As the camera pulls away, we see the merry gifter walking away, presumably to bestow more lottery tickets upon the rest of the lucky folks on his gift list, while the carolers finish their song with "Merry Christmas from the Lottery!" (to the tune of "and a partridge in a pear tree.")
 
Despite its hokeyness, the ad is actually very well done, and it has a certain old-fashioned Christmas-movie look and feel to it--similar to the Noelco ad mentioned by previous posters. My son and I always get a laugh out of it. We talk over the actors--my line is, "A worthless piece of colorful cardboard!" and then my son says "What a great gift!" It's become a holiday tradition at our house.
 
This ad usually starts running around the second week of December and continues through Christmas, I guess intended to appeal to last minute shoppers and/or those too lazy to think of a normal gift.
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote musicman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Nov 2008 at 2:34am
Originally posted by MorganFreeman MorganFreeman wrote:

See? I don't even have it anymore. Can someone post a No More Tears baby shampoo commercial to celebrate?
 
Hey MorganFreeman welcome aboard.  We need some new blood here and I see you are a bit feisty, already giving ol' PaWolf a run for his money. Big%20smile 
 
It's OK his bark is bigger than his bite.  He's really quite neighborly once you get to know him.  You'll get along just fine.
 
 
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Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

*facepalm* the new Garmin Christmas ads are already here.(video)


Has it been decided that the best way to advertise to specific groups like middle-aged women is just to mock them? Their radio commercials are even worse, featuring a monotonous, shrill-voiced hag singing the same tune.

Had to sign in to rant on this...

I understand the whole PC holidays thing, but... I really just don't want to buy from anyone that puts up huge Christmas-centric displays, but tags everything "Holiday." You see no mention of Hanukkah or any other holiday. None of the decorations have anything to do with anything but Christmas, so why can't you just say what it really is?

Christmas was always my favorite time of year as a kid, no surprise just like anyone else.. I don't even go to church; I'm a complete atheist in every way. I still respect what Christmas really means to people who believe, and that the majority of Americans seem to want to celebrate Christmas.

I'm not offended by the word, the holiday itself, or anything else about Christmas. I'm tired of every business avoiding the word, when they're clearly in to profit off of it.

The "holiday denial" is what really offends me. I miss Christmas.
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Angry  Today, Sunday, November 16, they've started running that infernal Pennsylvania Lottery commercial with Gus the w/rapping groundhog. Christmas is 39 days away!! Now I guess they'll start running the one with "Joe", who goes around giving lottery tickets to every idiot he's ever come into contact with. UGH!!!!
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"Black Friday" will be here before you know it.....Wink
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I just "experienced" my first "GreedyGreedyGreedyGarmin" commercial of the year.
 
GRRRROOOOOOAAAAANNNNNN......... Unhappy
 
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
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C'mon, man!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Nov 2008 at 12:45pm
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEAAAAT....

DEll has this new stupid ad with co-workers singing "Deck the office with office smart security fa lah lah lah lah lah lah ETC., blah blah blah..."

*FACEPALM* 


Might as well put this up again.

http://www.isitchristmas.com/


One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Quote Just for the record, that holiday you're referring to is the birthday of Jesus Christ (hence the correct name Christmas).
 
Xmas, near as I can figure, might be the birthday of Malcolm X.
Actually, for the record, Christ in Greek is Χριστος, hence the correct name Xmas. X has been an accepted abbreviation for Christ for many, many centuries.
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