I just heard this. It's Jeff Buckley with a very bad case of laryngitis.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

that is so bad.

what a waste of money those ads are. exactly no one is booking their trip to South Africa because of that.

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Can't stand both of 'em. The Norway bitch says every sentence in the form of a question? As for the other, yeah, I've already given my thoughts many times. I'd like to introduce them both to the Rack from Saw III.

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I don't hate this commercial. In fact, I'm not even sure what it's for. But it's a black dude talking about all this shit he's going to buy with the money he gets or saves via whatever product the ad is selling. Anyway, he mentions how he really wants to go to Ireland. And it just strikes me as odd every time. While I'm sure there are plenty of brothers who might like to travel to Ireland, I've never met one who had it at the top of his bucket list. It would ring more true if it was some goof with a "CHI-RISH" tattoo who sounds like Mike North.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

It's for his girlfriend/wife, who is implied to be Irish. You were right about your generation being subversive in ads.

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I can't stop saying hurtigruten route. Everytime I hear it, I think of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKCUuyojDI

Or this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Few things are less appealing, or sexy, than a sports-talk radio guy reading copy for sexualized teddy bears or pajamas with hidden compartments for "easy access."

Especially when his tone never changes throughout the read. He sounds like a robot.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

The Adam Harris one was the worst, as one would expect.

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I just noticed that you had already mentioned it above. I guess I wasn't the only one who found it odd.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Who loves shepherd's pie, anyway? That's what you eat in college cafeterias.

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My mother loved it, but she was born and raised in Dublin.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Man, my GF and I stayed in an Irish "cottage" in Galena. We each had shepherd's pie on the first night and had diarrhea the next couple days. Not a fun trip.

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The McDonald's Triple Cheeseburger will take your hunger to a cabin in the woods...

Not sure if it is intentional, or implied, but to me this ad is all about what is left unsaid. What is it we wish to "do" to our hunger? Embrace it? Make sweet love to it? Quite the opposite.

Once it has established a position of trust, the McDonalds Triple Cheeseburger will throw your hunger and a shovel in the trunk of a car and drive to a wooded area far away from the main road. The Mcdonalds Triple Cheeseburger will drag your hunger, dazed and weeping, along with the aforementioned shovel, from the trunk of said car. The McDonalds Triple Cheeseburger will curtly instruct your hunger to start digging...

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The sound of children singing displeases me.

The new Jeep commercial with children singing and then humming is brutal.

I like the irony in the Jeep commercial that the kids sing the names of American presidents to the tune of Ten Little Indians.

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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. - Bill Hicks

Let's do it for Johnny!

Yeah, I think Another Brick in the Wall ruined it for me.

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Just heard this. Jeff Buckley he ain't. Please go swim in a river.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

NARWHALS
NARWHALS
LIVING IN THE 0CEAN

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There goes a Narwhal?

Have you guys heard Willie Wilson's radio commercial? I don't know what's going on in that. The theme from Jeopardy! is playing in the background and there are people talking but I have a difficult time understanding what they're saying, let alone figuring out what they're actually talking about.

I looked it up, and it's apparently about red light cameras.

Nope. Tell you what hate, and I know you've mentioned it before, but the Buick commercial. Not for the music. Not for the fact that Buick's logo is one of the most easily recognized car logos there, so who the fuck couldn't spot a Buick. No. It's when that woman gets into the wrong car (the one that LOOKS like a Buick, but ISN'T a Buick) with that pencil dick eating a sub sandwich. The stupid fucking looks he gives her makes me want to chuck my coffee table through my TV.

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That fucking "King Of The Nerds" new season promo they play during every Conan episode.
That one actually makes me angry.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Now Kars4Kids is on TV. I have never hated a charity so much.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabAc7eqfXg

It's the awful American Family Insurance song. The music stands say "DePaul University" on them. He's one of ours.

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I really hate the Grainger Get it Got it Good Guy.

I like him! He's so curmudgeonly. He just wants you to run his factory well!

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This is hands down the worst. It sounds like someone stepping on a cat. Brutal.

How do we feel about the First American commercials? I sort of like Dickie and his ambiguously Balto-Slavo-Jewish grandma, but they changed the actress in the new one, the one about "selling pot."

I like those, but there's this other campaign with this weird guy who says stuff like "if First American were a woman, I'd marry her, and then my mom would finally get those grandkids she keeps asking about," and now "I'm not alternative, I don't like alternative rock, I don't live an alternative lifestyle, maybe I would if I knew what it was." This is some pretty messed-up sexuality on display here, from playing coy about a common euphemism for homosexuality to wishing he could get a bank pregnant to satisfy his overbearing mother. Usually people who talk like this wind up swinging from the garage rafters having held back more issues than a Reader's Digest collector. I don't want to bank with First American if this weirdo is, I'll tell you that much right now.

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I love, LOVE, those commercials.

IIRC the guy who plays Dickie was doing similar, deadpan-style commercials for Weil Olds in Libertyville in the late 70s early 80s.