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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
In reference to the previous post. The VW Bomber Ad creators have stepped forward.
There were apologies made and arses kissed. Yada yada yada…
But…VW dropped the charges against the creators. They also got an ad in front of millions(?) of eyeballs (which are attached to brains of people who make up their target demographic). Not to mention the free press vis-a-vis the newsworthy legal action opposing the already popular ad. The fall guys step forward, get their name out, (and a possible paycheck?) Everyone walks away happy. Sounds like a brilliant marketing plan to me.
Recently a (spoof?) Volkswagon ad has been circulating around the internet. It depicts a would-be suicide car bomber driving a VW Polo. He finds a “suitable location”, ripe with life and people who don’t look like him, and proceeds to detonate the explosives strapped to his body. Ultimately the VW saves the day.
I just so happen to have a copy of the VW Polo tv spot. You are going to need QuickTime. For some reason the QuickTime plug-in won’t play it in my browser, so right click and save the .mov to your harddrive and play it from there.
Oh yeah, VW and its advertisers claim that this was an unauthorized spoof and are rather upset. Subsequently, VW has filed charges; although they don’t know who the perp is. (In Germany you can file charges against unknowns and zie polizei gets to point the finger. hmmm.)
You can read the news story here.
tada!
german reality television producers are on a quest to find the most virile man. in Sperm Race, 12 donors will compete to see who has the world’s fastest sperm.
however, no human egg will be fertilized in this historic event. instead, samples will be placed in a test tube with a chemical substance nearly identical to that of a human egg. and to make sure that there is no funny business with the sperm, a team of doctors will be standing by. add lights, cameras, marketing, and bloggers and you have a race!
the one who comes in first the owner of the sperm to “fertilize the egg” will be awarded a shiny, new, red porsche. undoubtedly, the victor, with newfound fame and red porsche, will be making many more donations.
details were not released as to how much footage of the pre-race warmup will be aired on television. i suspect that will be saved for the unrated-dvd-box-set which will be on store shelves in time for christmas. perhaps mtv is developing their own series - “the real sperm”.
you can read more about Sperm Race here.
apparently increasing numbers of german men suffer from poor sperm. i wonder why.
You know you’re living in 2005 when…
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.
6. You go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial “9″ to get an outside line.
8. You’ve sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o’clock news.
11. Your boss doesn’t have! the ability to do your job.
12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
13. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of
the> screen.14. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
15. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
17. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
19. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
20. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list.
AND NOW YOU’RE LAUGHING at yourself. Go on, forward this …you know you want to!.
amazing isn’t it. let me know if you know the origins of this email.
geoffrey gussis writes an interesting legal blog where he highlights the hijinks of his peers.
no really, this is funny.
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