Advertisments.
Again, I'm awestruck by an ad I heard on the radio. This one is for a car dealer called Power Dodge or Power Toyota or somesuch:
"If you need a caaaar... truck or van...
Who ya gonna call? (Call Power!)"
The Ghostbusters theme?! That's your catchy hook? Are you freakin' kidding me? Don't get me wrong, Ghostbusters is a great movie, but it's 20 years old! By making this commercial, someone is telling me a round table of "ad wizards" couldn't come up with ANYTHING better than rehashing the Ghostbusters theme.
I weep for humanity. Or the subset that green-lights ideas for commercials.
The Great Ant Massacre of Aught-3
We're getting creamed by ants. Not really major trails, but lots of stragglers inside the house. So, yesterday evening, I set a decoy. I put some turkey lunch meat outside in the side yard. I checked back on it in the evening, and it was literally covered with ants. I thought it was a brown, dead leaf instead of a nice juicy piece of turkey. There was a nice big trail leading right back to their little hole, so I sprayed 'em with poison.
There were no survivors.
When I was a kid, and would step on ants, I used to picture an ant news report, with little ant families all gathered around watching, and hearing about the flood or flash of light from the giant magnifying glass in the sky or whatever. This was a black day in ant history, I tell you what.
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