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Jul 23 2010
This must be from the late 80’s or early 90’s, but it is a video that teaches ‘hip-hop’ to white america. Now, ‘yes’ this is a badly produced video, but honestly, I think they had the best intentions.
Enjoy.
Jul 22 2010
This is just a reminder to those that thought just because there is a black president, doesn’t mean that America has fully dealt with their issue with racism. Rick Sanchez of CNN interviews a member of the ‘National Socialist’ party, embrace for some ‘interesting’ logic.
Apr 14 2010
An example of when an advertising concept is not thoroughly thought through – I get bringing the classic Looney Toons carton characters, but how do you have the Chicken in the cartoon discussing about eating other chickens? Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has been known to create bad TV ads, and this is just another one to that long list.
Feb 07 2010
Google is not one to make TV ads, but this year they decided to get into the mix – while usual SuperBowl Ad companies like Pepsico have decided to pass up the SuperBowl Ad nauseum (strange reversal of fortunes).
Jan 22 2010
All about ambiguity
Part 2 of the ‘Funny Double Entendre’ series (check pt.1 here), this time these are some funny newspaper headlines that are in a desperate need for an edit. The main literal problem with these headlines is the ambiguity in some of the word(s) – without the proper context, the headlines have multiple meanings.
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- the ambiguity lies in whether we put our children in the oven with the cookies, sounds like circa 1940’s Nazi Germany
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- really? Could the fact that jet crashed already lead one to a conclusion that ’something went wrong?’
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- ‘Nine Months’ need to be explained – are the drunks put inside the violin case for a pregnancy term?
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- Captain Obvious to the rescue!
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- newspaper headlines should be ran by at least three different copy editors