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Can anyone top this one for bad timing?
Hong Kong will take your breath away. - an ad commissioned before the SARS outbreak
Hong Kong will take your breath away. - an ad commissioned before the SARS outbreak
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I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio -
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Please no stupid trolls.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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New theme for a commercial jet liner...
"Takes you where you want to go"...
Two days after the campaign launched, one of their planes crashed killing all aboard...Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux""The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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For those of you who can dare stand the horror... I present Johnny Turbo. Perhaps the most pathetic example of advertising I've seen.
All syllogisms have three parts.
Therefore this is not a syllogism.Comment
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SnowFire:
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This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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There was one thing I noticed in the old Dyson Vacuum ads, where they advertised 'no loss of suction'. It showed a graph of another vacuum, which started at full suction then declined, then that of the Dyson. However, the Dyson must have been crappy because, though the suction didn't decline, it was half the power of the other brand
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Oh, and thankyou for giving me night terrors for the next 20 years Snowfire.Comment
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"The Pokey Little Puppy" next to "Leather and Lace II"?
That's just not right...The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.Comment
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That is sad.Originally posted by SnowFire
For those of you who can dare stand the horror... I present Johnny Turbo. Perhaps the most pathetic example of advertising I've seen.
http://sardius.fefea.org/reviews/jturbo/
Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
Do It OurselvesComment
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You've made my day, I don't know how old that was but the sugar-lock thing and the 'blue planets'...
Was that actually for real? Please tell me he photoshopped 'Lace and Leather II'...."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
"...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
"sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.Comment
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New COKE.
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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EDIT: nevermind, I should of read the all of his commentary - he already pointed out the whips and stuff.Originally posted by Seeker
Was that actually for real? Please tell me he photoshopped 'Lace and Leather II'....
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Do It OurselvesComment
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Back in the mid-80's, Burger King* came out with a $40 million flop in their "Where's Herb" campaign. First they started by saying that the lucky customer's who spotted Herb would win $5,000. Problem: They didn't let on as to what Herb looked like. Naturally, this resulted in a large numbers of customers (whom apparently fit the "Herb" profile) being harrassed by other customers - "Are you Herb? You sure? You look like him" which started their long sales decline.
Then they revealed, during the Super Bowl nonetheless, that Herb was this geeky looking middle-aged white guy with a widow's peak. Not only that, but the campaign also revealed that Herb had never eaten a Whopper. OK, so this campaign is based upon the predicate that Herb spends all his time at BK, but he doesn't eat the food?
Then it got really inane. Herb was to go to various BK's around the country, and the first guest to see him would be presented with a check for the aforementioned $5k. They had camera crews ready to catch the moment when some happy BK customer discovered that they had won their five grand.
Except for a minor glitch: on each of his first four visits, Herb was first seen by minors, who were then told that they were not eligible for the $5 grand because of their age. Of course, all these confrontations were filmed, but if BK has any sense they would've destroyed the footage.
The notoriety was so bad that the Alabama State Legislature** passed a resolution accusing BK of consumer fraud in May of 1986, after yet another minor spotted Herb and was told he wasn't getting a check.
2 months and $40 million dollars later, Herb was put to pasture, only to be revived by Advertising Age which voted the "Where's Herb?" campaign the "most elaborate advertising flop of the decade."
*Speaking of BK, you want a sure-fire way to pick out the summers losers? Look at the films that BK has the exclusive fast-food merchandising deal with and you have it.
**Premium content, but you can read the first 100 or so words and get the gist of the article.Last edited by JohnT; April 16, 2003, 09:34.Comment
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