It’s an infomercial. But it’s making fun of infomercials. But it’s still an infomercial. Whoa.
And… AND! It’s got Gilbert Gottfried. Freaking brilliant. I mean, if you’re going to have some announcer yell at you for being too idiotic to complete simple tasks, it might as well be Hollywood’s loudest man berating you via boob tube. You know, come to think of it, I never did see why I had to bend all the way over to put on and take off my shoes…
Posted in Shoot the Messenger
Tagged gilbert gottfried, marketing, shoedini, tv commercials
Thanks (I think) to the reader who found the site by searching
“horny haitian women.”
Yeesh. See: Haitian Women Channel Aristophanes
Posted in Information Stupor Highway
Tagged aristophanes, haiti, reader appreciation, women
I’m starting to think that maybe Google suggest isn’t the most accurate indicator of popular interest.
Maybe it’s my lazy reporting (the Unhappy Mediator is writing from the mountains this week, which may contribute to snowboardbummish journoblogger slackerdom), but I really don’t think that, like, so many people are searching for ways to get their sisters to sleep with them. Moreover, there doesn’t seem to be any interesting internet story behind “How do I get my sister to sleep with me?” No Christwire articles or anything. Just a handful of other autocomplete enthusiasts and a recent Yahoo Answers query, which seems to have been posted only recently — presumably after it started to receive bloggy attention. There’s some data mining here, surely, contributing to the painting of an inaccurate portrait of our collective search tendencies.
Then again, people are really into World of Warcraft and Farmville. Some people are, like, really, really into them. And some folks, I reckon, are really, really into family.
[Thanks, Paul]
Posted in Google Game
Tagged family touch, farmville, google suggest, incest, world of warcraft
Colgate marketing: Reveling in the pleasures of a simpler time when men were men and toothpaste was toothpaste? Or trying too hard — and yet not nearly hard enough — to make regular ol’ paste sound appealing?
For the record:
Great
Pronunciation: \ˈgrāt, Southern also ˈgre(ə)t\
Function: adjective
remarkable in magnitude, degree, or effectiveness
eminent, distinguished : chief or preeminent over others —often used in titles : aristocratic, grand
Reg·u·lar
Pronunciation: \ˈre-gyə-lər, ˈre-g(ə-)lər also ˈrā-\
Function: adjective
normal, standard
[Thanks, Skeener]
