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"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
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Cringe-worthy.
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
The coffee ad is a bit kinky.
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EsnRedshirt![]() Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts ![]() |
Those are bad, but the Pitney-Bowes one is way over the top.
Aside to Woland- yeah, isn't it?
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stoneunhinged![]() Inner circle 3079 Posts ![]() |
Most of those were also in this article: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/02/......ous.html
I wonder who stole the idea from whom? |
Marlin1894![]() Special user 565 Posts ![]() |
The still make Chase and Sanborn coffee, I buy it all the time. But the girl won't drink it, she has to have hazlenut coffee. Why I oughta...
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George Ledo![]() Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 2895 Posts ![]() |
Sure they're cringe-worthy today, but, back in that time period, those ads sold their products.
What I do have to wonder is whether people back then took those ads "seriously," or if they took them with a grain of salt. Don't have a clue.
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Tom Cutts![]() Staff Northern CA 5826 Posts ![]() |
What ads or even shows are you seeing today which will be cringe worthy fifty years from now?
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critter![]() Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts ![]() |
Two and a half men.
No wait, that's cringeworthy now. *** It looks like the woman in the coffee ad is smiling.
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motown![]() Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 5968 Posts ![]() |
Those are great. There's nothing like a politically incorrect ad.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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motown![]() Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 5968 Posts ![]() |
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
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On 2011-03-04 11:56, Tom Cutts wrote: Probably as in the past: proportionally a small amount, but numerically enough to make us ask "what were we thinking?" Café posts, on the other hand...
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
RS1963![]() Inner circle 2719 Posts ![]() |
I didn't see anything wrong with any of them, regardless of what time period they are from. There ads get over it.
Yes I'm obviously not a fan of being P.C. sure people shouldn't be rude but the P.C. crowd is just too much. |
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On 2011-03-04 12:26, motown wrote: Fly me, anyone?
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MagicSanta![]() Inner circle Northern Nevada 5845 Posts ![]() |
I always took the 'fly me' as the employee taking ownership of her role on the plane and when you fly you are not just using transport you are experience a level of service.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Me too.
Chase & Sanborn is excellent coffee, too. |
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On 2011-03-05 19:32, MagicSanta wrote: Of course. And the double entendre too of course.
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tommy![]() Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16200 Posts ![]() |
The politically correct are never right.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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MagicSanta![]() Inner circle Northern Nevada 5845 Posts ![]() |
Not really, never considered 'Fly Me' to have a secondary meaning. It isn't the same as the book Coffe, Tea, or Me, that was pretty clear.
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