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Old 29-June-2008, 01:13 AM
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Well, sort of...

I was listening to a local radio station while doing some work around the house when a batch of commercials came on. One included the announcer interviewing the Sun (I'm not sure what the commercial was for, maybe an amusement park). Okay, interviewing the Sun is bad astronomy, but toward the end of the commercial the Sun was asked what he was doing this summer and he replied that he was taking it easy, except for "that eclipse in August."

Apparently, the ad agency actually did a little research before making the spot. How unusual.
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I'm going to turn this around (since I like it better here than in Bad Commercials). Burger King has a new ad campaign for their latest burger or whatever. To deserve the burger, one astronomer found a planet. The other guy helped, and gets ridiculed by the third person. The first time I saw this commercial, the last line was the third person saying that they discovered a star.

Unfortunately, I think they wised up, because the commercial has ended before that line every time I've seen it since.
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