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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I wonder if, to the kids who weren’t alive at the time, these ads look the same way they do to the rest of us. It’s almost elegant the way it seems to come off as something not quite stupid:
Without researching the facts and figures, I can assure you this ad did exactly what it was supposed to do: People talked about the ad with the beer crossing the road. At school, in class, at church, at movies, it was advertising magic.
I just don’t know how you pitch that one in a meeting of ad men. “Hey, I got this idea for a commercial, a bunch of beer cross the road like they’re deer or something.” Were they drinking large amounts of the product? Rainier did not have that kind of intoxicating effect.
But Rainier’s greatest contribution was Marlene:
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That last commercial was a gem.
- pdwalker | 11/03/2011 @ 08:32I remember the Beer Crossing ad but I never saw Marlene; mebbe I’d left California by the time she hit the tube. As for the beer itself? I’ll observe Mom’s Primary Dictum: “If ya can’t say anything NICE…”
- bpenni | 11/03/2011 @ 09:15Marlene was way before I had anything to do with California. This was a Washington State venue of viewership.
Which might change things, as far as the competitive creativity in beer commercials is concerned. We had Oly, ya know. The one with the Artesians. At any rate, I really can’t speak to where Marlene’s dulcet tones flipover to piercing feminist backtalk could & could not have been heard. It’s a decent piece of acting, I’ll say that.
- mkfreeberg | 11/03/2011 @ 09:19Can’t say I’ve ever had the pleasure, but I do like the ads.
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