Drug Companies = Scammers

[SVTCOBRA]

OK, so I'm watching TV and eating some freshly charred cow and the next thing I know I'm watching a commercial about what to do if you have a limp noodle!!! Oh, and then what I need to do if I'm on my period!!!

ENOUGH with the drug companies!!! Are they THAT stupid to believe we will run to the phone and call up our doctors and request their miracle drugs!!??

No, they are counting on the same stupid people that keep the scammers in business.

OK, feel better now that I've shared ....../rant

[Poyzinous]

The drugs worked for me. OMG Steve's riding a dragon! With a lightsaber in his hand... oh he's probably going to fight that kraken by the chocolate rainbow.

[Kendahl]

You forgot to mention commercials that feature various portions of one's alimentary canal.

My wife believes that television commercials contribute to the decline in good manners. Dissing the commercials becomes a habit that carries over into other situations.

To move this thread over into the automotive venue, consider the sorry state of car commercials. At best, they tend to be unexciting and inoffensive. Most are so bad that, if we bought the car being advertised, it would be in spite of the commercial, not because of it.

I can think of only four good car commercials:

(1) Forty years ago, a Los Angeles station aired a commercial that featured a racing Camaro at speed on a road course. The driver was trying hard enough that the tail would come out a bit in corners and he would have to catch it. I saw the commercial only three times and have always wondered if it was discontinued because some safety hysteric complained.

(2) This one had a Honda Civic as the sweep second hand on a clock face. The car rotated in steps, not continuously. Each step was accompanied by a click that had a definite pitch like a xylophone or marimba. It was the sound that captured my attention.

(3) An old guy wakes up after several decades in a coma. He announces that he is going for a drive, goes out to the garage, pulls the cover off his Porsche 550, fires it up and takes off. A young guy in a new Boxster notices him and goes after him for a better look. With the two cars side by side, the young guy looks over and exclaims, "Holy ...". The old guy looks back and replies, "... moley!" Cute story. The goal was to link the Boxster to the 550.

(4) The star of this commercial was an all wheel drive Porsche 911 as it hustled along a winding road in a heavy rain. The commercial was deliberately undramatic since its goal was to emphasize how the car's stability enabled the driver to cope readily with difficult road conditions.

These commercials impressed me because, first and foremost, they were not loud and raucous and, second, they had a message which they conveyed successfully. Most of the garbage on TV fails on both counts.

I used to watch Formula 1 races on SpeedVision. One of the sponsors was Warsteiner. They had a brief, but effective, pitch. "Life is too short to drink cheap beer."

[Poyzinous]

Hey rich did you hear about this story around your way?http://www.newsobserver.com/ne....html

[SVTCOBRA]

Hey rich did you hear about this story around your way?http://www.newsobserver.com/ne....html

Very cool!! No, I hadn't seen this!

Seems we went for years without any mention of speed in the ads.

I like this onehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObUXS4KD7s

More bad behavior encouragedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVPEuBjJjEo

Narrated by TELCOMAN ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhvFe7edkv0

[pfarmer]

You forgot to mention commercials that feature various portions of one's alimentary canal.

My wife believes that television commercials contribute to the decline in good manners. Dissing the commercials becomes a habit that carries over into other situations.

To move this thread over into the automotive venue, consider the sorry state of car commercials. At best, they tend to be unexciting and inoffensive. Most are so bad that, if we bought the car being advertised, it would be in spite of the commercial, not because of it.

I can think of only four good car commercials:

How can one possibly forget all those good 'See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet'?

I loved most of these 'Body by Fisher' commercials when they came out.

Perry

[Poyzinous]

Something's wrong with the 3rd one. The color is broken. And I'd love to have a '59 Impala

[pfarmer]

Something's wrong with the 3rd one. The color is broken. And I'd love to have a '59 Impala

With the factory 348, a real beast. In 1963 I almost bought it when my brother in law was driving from Santa Cruz to Monterey before the road was divided. We were forced into oncoming traffic by a large truck. He floor this beast and got back just in time to miss a head on, there was nowhere else to go other than to stop. Next thing I knew we stopped in Sunnyvale and were in a new Barracuda.

Perry

[zozoka1212]

[370Z/28]

That is about as bad as this Sunday my hubby and I were eating at a nice restaurant and the bartender was talking about how he had been partying the night before and how bad he vomited. I'm like...come on dude, we are trying to eat here!!!!

2 of my favorite car commercials:

Dude in a Hemi Magnum races a guy and when they pull up to the intersection they guy asks him "hey...what do you have in that thing?" and the driver replies "oh...a surfboard, ladder etc.

Black WS6 Trans Am eating the car in front of it when the light changes. I had a WS6 just like that.