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One Mojito, two Gin and Tonics, Three Bacardi Lime Sodas, and a couple of pints of Stella please.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Sorry Scrawny, I'm not trying to be difficult or argue with you for the sake of it, I just think you've been a little taken in by all the flashy stuff and kinda lost sight of what advertising's all about. I'm just trying to make you see my point of view and I dont' think you're really getting it, because you seem to think I'm criticising the artfulness of the advert itself, which I'm honestly not.
I see what you're saying, although this might be shutting the stable door after the horses after taken over the thread. It's not as easy for us now to relate to the relationship between ad and sales because advertising is becoming ever more subtle, and brands are more in it for the long term. I understand that you're saying the ad itself doesn't make you want to buy a TV, or consider that it would make anyone want to buy a TV, and that Sony's sales as a result of the ad won't necessarily reflect whether anyone liked it or not. However, there are hundreds of media monitoring agencies that track this kind of shit, and I'm pretty positive (as I work as part of one of them) that their return on investment will be huge. The awareness they've generated just through the making of the ad itself means that the film will have a much broader reach then it would have done if they'd just put it out on a Monday night and hoped for the best (actually going out in the four ad breaks between the Man U Chelsea game next Sunday, fact fans, in the full 2 and a half minute incarnation).
AND ANOTHER THING - oh fuck this. nice to have reasonable ruck on here again
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it's a humourous post, intended to generate amusement. It works like this: I said that Roy had moved from 15th to 14th place in my league, which doesn't really exist, but I'm suggesting it does, like I'm the sort of self important **** who might keep a league of posters, and feel that it has some worth. It's basically playing with my online persona - on the sneaking suspicion that I might be as arrogant as I appear to be. Anyway, after I said Well Done Roy, there's a brief pause, and then I say 'Commiserations to OJ', insinuating that Roy has just displaced you from 14th to 15th position, and in the spirit of the character, I offered commiserations. This works to strengthen the idea of my own self-importance, because it it now suggesting that you too might care about your ranking, which of course, you don't, because the whole league idea was only made up in the previous post, and doesn't really exist.
It's basically a joke with a not so good dummy punchline, and then a not so good actual punchline - which is the second post.
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you'll find that if you read my posts closely, and cross reference them with other posts that I or somebody else may have made, then there is a whole wealth of material there. Little twists and turns, mocking digs, ressurection and reference to old memes and incidents. It's a fun game, played out primarily to amuse myself, but it might be gratifying for others to find the codes and meanings that I intricately weave into my posts.
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that last post is in much the same voice as the original "Well Done Roy" post (2005) - mocking the way in which I might believe my posts to be of some kind of almost literary worth, when you and I both know, OJ, that my posts are really just hardened nuggets of self-obssesed shit.
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D'you know, I just about worked this out just before you posted your explanation, but only just. So "doh" and double "doh" on my part.
I'll add that to the homework and Maoist self criticism I've been set for the weekend, despite not having a clue what it means. It's going to be a tall order.
By the way, you don't come across as arrogant Benway. No doubt this is your point.
eta: and you've posted twice since I began very slowly typing this so it makes very little sense. I'll add speed to my make-me-worthy-list.
Of course, I can only assume they are delivered deadpan, in keeping with the tone of the post, like. For all I know he could be dancing, dancing and rubbing a picture of himself against his own face and laughing, laughing and singing The Laughing Policeman into his own photographic image.
Though I expect that would upset 'The Fragile Neighbour'. So probably not.
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I like Benway's deadpan sinister Stevies.
In accordance with the newly instated Misc plagiary ruling, I ought to make it clear they're ripped off of another forum, wherein the posters deploy them as friendly homage to Lee and Herring. See also: 'I see what you did there and it was amusing'
eta: now I'm ripping off thorn! Normal service will be resumed when I've had some sleep - exhaustion has made me delirious.
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: I seriously don't understand being impressed simply because a man has the means to own a particular horse. How did he become wealthy enough to afford such a purchase I wonder? Did he inherit his sizeable wealth? Did he dabble in the black market slave trade? Was he perhaps a drug kingpin? Child pornographer?
You don't have to be ridiculously wealthy to own a National Hunt (jumps racing) horse. Desert Orchid was bred by Roy's friend's uncle's father, by an obscure (ie cheap) flat stallion out of an equally unfamous family-owned mare.
I'm still quite impressed by Roy's association. When are you going to impress me, ralph? Unless it's by racking up a huge post count but managing to say absolutely nothing.
Oh, I hope kovacs wasn't too disappointed if he watched the racing on Saturday. Seems like Grey Abbey was pulled up- the yard's out of form and a lot of their horses are coughing.
I think more threads should deviate onto subjects that I know lots about.
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quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I know what you're doing there, Benway.
I think this would make a good sequel to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teenage Benways try to cover up the fact they spent the entire summing posting on a bulletin board by killing off each member of the community in increasingly gruesome ways. The Benways think they have got away with it, believing they have convinced the world that they were actually being proactive - learning to use dreamweaver in order to maximise web based marketing potential. But later they get a strange email that says "I know what you’re doing there Benway."
SPOILER ALERT: Kovacs kills three of the four Benways with a coat hanger hook cock.
Just saw the advert yesterday and the sublimeness (sp?) of it makes it with the backing track makes it more enjoyable than most regular telly.
As to the greatness of "Cog", yeah it was clever... But hardly unique... Rube Goldberg did similar sequences for years and Fischli and Weiss made a 30min film called "The Way Things Go" using chemical reactions and the reactions they cause. I think you just have a hardon over it is cuz it has a car in it!
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But also to some extent because you missed what I was saying entirely, which was that the Honda advert was clever not only because the sequence was visually ver captivating, but more so as an advertising campaign it was very effective because it used parts of the product and demonstrated the quality of workmanship which goes into every vehicle, plus a few of it's most impressive added features such as the 12 speaker audio, keyless entry, blah blah blah said this all before 3 pages ago blah blah
But ffs do people really have such a shit view of me that anything I say is immediately tainted with this idea that I can't say anything of substance or merit because I'm interested in cars?
Perhaps I'm just really shit at articulating my points, because what I say makes a lot of sense to me. And I'm getting pretty tired with being scoffed at to be honest.
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Why haven't I seen this advert if it was out on the 6th November. I watched TV last night and everything... that Billie Piper show. I still didn't see it.
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I went on a stag do recently and, as is often the case during such occasions, a few stag memes were forged and passed around. Some were clever, others less so. One of the assembled company has been working in New York for the last couple of years. Every time he opened his mouth to mention the USA a chorus of "Earrrrd it!" would ring out. This basic pisstake was taken up by the group until it seemed that every time anyone opened their mouth about anything at all they were shouted down by 15 menboys shouting "Earrrd it!" (I didn't say it was clever).
Is that what TMO has got to look forward to? Every set up followed by a knowing "Ah, yes, the 2003 651st post by Frank. I see what you're doing there Jonesy."
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I saw this advert twice in the cinema today and recognised it from the first guitar notes as I'd already downloaded the song (pan-media marketing)... and it felt immediately good and familiar. Seeing the old Coit Tower in the background gave me a little lump in my throat that even the corny shot of a slomo frog leaping from a drainpipe didn't quite suppress. It is a nice concept, prettily executed. The song is a "grower".
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because you missed what I was saying entirely, which was that the Honda advert was clever not only because the sequence was visually ver captivating, but more so as an advertising campaign it was very effective because it used parts of the product and demonstrated the quality of workmanship which goes into every vehicle, plus a few of it's most impressive added features such as the 12 speaker audio, keyless entry, blah blah blah said this all before 3 pages ago blah blah
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