Hah; they caught me once...and only once.
A long time ago, we had one of those cash back cards. We used it to pay for everything, and at a time we were buying a new house, so we had some big ticket items too.
We didn't spend any more than we really didn't have money for. All it took was one month that we didn't pay it off in full, and we lost all advantages of that money back.

Never again.

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Yeah, I knew that. Still, the big profit for the MC/Visa crowd is in the interest that less-than-brilliant people pay endlessly. With the exception of home mortgage, I never buy anything I can't pay off immediately. (I am fortunate enough to be able to even buy cars that way, though I do borrow from savings and "pay myself back" with interest.)

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

A company in Milwaukee that really ought to consider a new jingle:

"Laacke and Joys, when nature calls you [pause] outdoors."

Sounds like an ad for outdoor toilets, doesn't it? Of course they sell skiing and camping gear. Oh, that call of nature!

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The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

Calling Ace Ventura!

Meanwhile, Cialis commercials are remarkably subtle. In addition to the clip already posted, the visuals are remarkably understated:





And what's with the outdoor bathtubs obsession?



Are they trying to burn into your brain some kind of visual leitmotiv that permanently associates Cialis with outdoor bathtubs? You know, sort of like what Nissan tried to do with the dirty old man and his mangy mutt?

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Of course, we can't forget the Enzyte commercials and their subtelty.

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This commercial seems to equate car theft with getting a car loan. Most of it shows a fellow trying to break into a car.



The by-line is "You don't have to break into that car and steal it, see GMAC instead (and we'll steal your income through high interest rates)."

Another gagger is this Flomax ad. Here's a frame:



Go, man, go!

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Oh, this is one for the record books; a stop-smoking product that consists of 24-karat gold-plated "bio-magnets" worn on the left ear while smoking, which are described as "auricular therapy" to supposedly produce endorphins that stop the urge to smoke. (Not so much a bad ad as a mediocre ad for a bad product.)

Best line from the ad? "Keep smoking, but after a while, you could lose the urge!"

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Well, you could. Stranger things have happened.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I've known two women, unacquainted with one another, who repeatedly tried to quit smoking with no success, and who each gave up smoking after having a "golden arrow" piercing through the left pinna (upper part of external ear) for just that purpose. A case of mind over matter, the power of suggestion, I suppose.

Just saw an ad that had a bunch of supermodels in cocktail dresses building a car engine.

It turns out to be an ad for... a computer.

Wha...huh?

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I saw that last night and had the exact same reaction.

I never could figure out what the girls were for- looks?

Similar to the one with the babe-borg/robot who doubles as a Heineken keg dispenser. I could make some crude sexist remark about "the perfect woman" but it wouldn't be right, so I won't.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I haven't seen that ad, but I think you were ToSeeked.

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Has anyone had any personal experience with one of those companies? I almost did and then when I, thankfully, was talked out of it, the guy harrassed me. My lawyer told me that my suit cannot be assigned to anyone else or I would be in breach and I could lose the entire settlement. When I explained that to they rep he called my lawyer a greedy liar. They were only going to take one lump sum but they were going to take more than half and only give me 35% of my money. Oh I cringe...

I heard a commercial on the radio where a bank is offering to donate $100 in your name to your charity of choice for opening an account. The woman said she chose to donate it to her church because that was about the amount needed to buy a gold trimmed choir robe. While I kind of like the banks incentive, I can't help but wonder if there is anything better a church could be doing with charity money.

At least one advertiser is admitting to a bad commercial campaign.
Wendy's drops 'red pigtail' ad campaign

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Oh I dunno. My son's home today because we are fighting colds here...
I opened your link and he instantly pointed to the picture of the man weearing the red pigtail wig and said, "Look, he wants a cheeseburger!"

Seems the advertising worked just fine

Saw one last night...

An attractive woman is in a bar surrounded by pigs... real, live, oinking pigs. One of the pigs leaves the bar, goes to the men's room, and purchases a condom from a machine.

Suddenly he is transformed into a man. He returns to the bar, the woman smiles at him, they hold hands. The voice over talks about a gentleman always using protection, or some such.

Oh, puh-leaze! That whole commercial is so wrong on so many levels.

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Heh, yeah those ads are in my Sports Illustrateds also. Like walking up to some woman in a bar and saying, "Hey, look what I just got out of the despenser in the mens room!" is going to go over so well.... ...at least it never worked for me. I mean...

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