Should i run this banner?

[Rasbelin]

Should I start talking about Poly as a Greek-Canadian website for liberals?

[MarkG]

MarkG, are you trying to test perceptions or increase sales?

if you would read the first thread i made yesterday, you would realise that it's the first

but i do find the redish color of it to be pretty attracting, and i'd prefer to have chaplin on a banner than bush

[orange]

i won't mind, but I know many will

[St Leo]

I find this banner hilarious, but I advise against running it. Although Apolyton is community, it's not tight-knit enough for everyone to appreciate the humour fully.

P.S. Use a parody of Stalin instead. I don't really care that he killed oodles of my relatives or that the fact that there are only 3 million Latvians on our planet is because of him; people won't have the same kneejerk reaction to that bastard.

[dunk]

Originally posted by MarkG
i'm using chaplin's parody of nazism to make an analogous statement about today's advertising, while at the same time of course promoting our store

if in the past we had oppressive goverments telling people what to do, today we have the companies doing the same thing through mass media and advertising

the idea of the banner is really simple....

I see. Understood. I still don't like the banner.

[Tuberski]

The only funny part of the add was the warning.


I don't care, actually, either way.

All I have to say is:


HAIL TO THE KING BABY!!!!

[Tuberski]

Oh, one other thing, why in hell wasn't this thread in the A/C forum?

At least we'd get a +1 out of it.

[Immortal Wombat]

I don't really care, but I thought I'd post to point out that the quote in MarkG's signature is exactly what led to my static title of Prince.

[Tuberski]

Well, I'll be happy at King, if I can find a good pic of Ash.

[chequita guevara]

I saw the movie. I think it's a bad idea.

[Gatekeeper]

Markos:

I voted "no" in regards to the ad, but why don't you run it anyway? Sometimes the only way you can learn right from wrong is by getting burned in the process.

Gatekeeper

[Boris Godunov]

You'd probably offend more people than you'd care to offend.

Personally, I don't find the banner any more distasteful than The Producers or other satire on Hitler. As Brooks says, the best way to diffuse the power of Hitler is by laughing at the one-testicled ****head.

As for the film, it is brilliant and still stands as a powerful statement agains fascism. Don't you remember his speech at the end? I'm seriously perplexed at how people could say the film is now somehow offensive, it certainly isn't.

[Asher]

It's offensive to use someone dressed up as Hitler telling you to buy from Apolyton.

It's not offensive when it's intended as a statement against fascism.

Lots of people have relatives that died because of Hitler, and there is NO POINT to having someone dressed up as him saying "Buy Apolyton!". It's not even FUNNY out of context like this.

It's just a really, really dumb idea. It's another reason why I don't buy from the Apolyton store actually, I can't stand the stupid little ads.

[Boris Godunov]

So is it offensive to have a man dressed up as Hitler, singing and dancing and acting like a buffoon, in order to sell $100+ tickets to a Broadway show?

[Wittlich]

I'm actually shocked that there are 19 "yes" votes to use the banner. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?!?

This banner is in VERY poor taste. Plain and simple as that.