TV Commercials [Lame Post Alert]
Category: Advertising... TV & Radio...
Posted Friday, October 22, 2004 at 02:25 PM [GMT-6]

As the unflinchingly honest Scott would say, I got nothin'. The weather is dismal...a continuous spitting of rain that ruins any chances of a bike ride...my clientele has evaporated, and -- irony of ironies -- fire ants are taking over the neighborhood. So I'm reduced, intellectually and emotionally, to posting about TV commercials (and that's from memory, because, as you might recall, the TV is busted).

  • This has been bothering me for quite some time. You know those iPod commercials, the ones where the flat black people have flat white headphones and dance maniacally in front of flat primary colors? Well, I just want to know how those folks keep those buds in their ears. They must be anatomic anomalies because I can barely keep mine in my ears sitting in an upright and fixed position in front of my monitor. Either that, or they're implants.

  • My favorite commercials du jour are the ones HP is running for their digital imaging products. I love the way they morph shots of real people into paper photos and vice versa, and the song that plays in the background is dangerously earwormish.

  • Some yahoo from Monahans is running for US Representative in our district (he's a democrat, although apparently ashamed of it as his party affiliation wasn't even shown on his website, last time I looked), and his commercial's closing line is this: "Vote for me and we'll be out of Iraq tomorrow." Well. I assume that he's running for the position of God, since I can't think of another person who could get this done. And while election is certainly a theologically supportable topic for discussion, it basically goes the other direction. I'm pretty sure the Creator of the Universe doesn't have to run for re-election.
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I have the same problem with the "earpods," except only in my left ear. The right ear stays in fine.

Posted by: bryan at October 22, 2004 03:28 PM

Bryan, that's funny...I have the same problem, and it's the right ear that provides better earbud retention. I'm pretty sure that's a sign of superior intelligence.

Posted by: Eric at October 22, 2004 03:40 PM

Or inferior ear design. Of course, I have an excuse. One of my ears is shaped differently than the other.

Posted by: bryan at October 25, 2004 04:33 PM

One of my ears is shaped differently than the other.

I suspect ears are like feet in this regard. No two are identical, even on the same person.

Posted by: Eric at October 25, 2004 04:38 PM
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