Large, plain, san-serif font on otherwise unadorned back of a double-decker:The Bus.

Do you get it yet?
I like that.

First I saw Halifax (at least, I think it was Halifax) doing a spoof of the Crimson Permanent gag (the building that turns into a sailing ship), and tonight in the gym I saw Studio B's 2006? track, I see girls (not entirely safe for work, due to, uh, running women and gratuituous camera angles...)

Since one Justin Mason inadvertently brought my attention to another Irish DVDs-by-email company (MovieStar), I had a poke at their website; it's interesting to compare MovieStar with my own suppliers, ScreenClick:

• both have a big-image splash pages, although the MovieStar one comes with some useful links (including, er, two to the page you're on)
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Don't click on this link lightly; it's a TV spot in support of a recently-launched road safety campaign targetted at excessive speed, using the tagline the faster the speed, the bigger the mess. It's been rated as 15/15A for cinema viewing and cannot be broadcast on national TV before 9pm; I saw it on TV during the week and to be honest found it ( Read more... )

Judging by TV adverts at the moment, if you can't get a date for Valentine's, your next option is to overdose on chocolate, and failing that, drink.

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Just saw an advert on TV for www.cdwow.ie which mentioned free delivery, so I figured I'd check them out. The site is displaying Perl debug traces (Data::Dumper output) all over the place and no DVD images, prices or other details. That's that advertising budget wasted...

Someone had an advert in the run-up to 2000 for their shiny new beer (maybe it was Guinness pushing Breo?) which had a intended-to-be-devilish guy (black-suited, bald, sly smile, syrupy voice) talking about a new beer for a new millennium yadda yadda yadda. The advert was all jump-cuts and what not, and at one point he says, "it's not like I'm ( Read more... )

The Wayward Coffee Shop, 8570 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle 98103. Ask for Broenwynn, and if she's there tell her waider sent you. Free wireless intarweb, dog-friendly, fair trade approved, all the good stuff.

So it was stereotypical to the point of humour[1] for a while (before we all got jaded, dontcha know) that any advert featuring a woman doing something outdoorsy and/or flexible was selling tampons or sanitary towels. Now there are a lot of adverts featuring various diverse outdoorsy things which are for... the British Army. There's a punchline ( Read more... )