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Detroit, 9:56 AM
Mon Nov 30
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05/13/09
I don't know who the ad agency responsible for Mercedes-Benz USA's ads are, but they're so full of themselves, it's sickening. (breathy arrogant voice) "The same LUXURY... in a NEYEUW smaller package!" I admit that it's not speaking to my section of the market, but this is almost like watching Sir Allen Stanford on CNBC a year before the financiapocalypse started.
This ad doesn't sell the vehicle itself, but at least it's far less abrasive.
05/13/09
Actually, it'd be better for 'em to drive off, and take the glorified C-class with 'em.
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Also, the video kinda, y'know, has a road. With lines painted on it. Which implies vehicle operation of some kind.
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The bridge reads bridgebridgebridge, the raindrops are:
d
r
o
p,
and it's all really cute.
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Depends on the car. My Volvo, man, I probably shouldn't bother with spikes.
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"Now, when I drive, I can just do my nails, and text my friends while letting my Benz drive around for me.
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11/06/08
Detroit might seize to be a viable city (more so), but maybe Maryland and Kentucky and who knows where will flourish.
And please don't read this as absence of sympathy for all of those who are directly affected, I'm just stepping back for a bigger view for a moment.
11/06/08
It was well done to show how the loss of car production hit all the suppliers, including tires, and all the cutbacks rippled out to furniture and home sales (which back then were pretty much steady and safe)and local stores or local branches of chain stores, and home repair and improvement etc etc.
So Detroit may be the black hole that slowly absorbs all life as we know it.
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So is it the media or the ad companies need to reduce their prices?
this broadcast brought to you by the Naive Englishman "It seems so simple..." opinion factory.
11/06/08
Part of this has been the channel shift from traditional ad delivery to online, mobile, etc, but part of the decline has been in overall ad spending, and the trend continues downward across categories.
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Now the joke applies more aptly to Detroit, since I hear most of Detroit has moved to Saskatchewan to work on the oil rigs.
11/06/08
So in the case of Chrysler, they're probably looking that far ahead and thinking, "Well, by THEN we won't be selling anything anyhow!"
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[execute edit]
>clickity-clickity<
"These layoffs will cut down on the company's (*y*et increase*s* the personal & personnel) alcohol bills."
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>Hmm, better...maybe separate them for better effect, better grammar<
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"These layoffs will cut down on the company's alcohol bills.
On the other hand, personal & personnel alcohol bills increase exponetially...
...no supplier discount anymore :("
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>Hmm, much better...Thank Dog for the gLoRiOuS new edit button! :allgiddy:<
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>Now who's got my bottles of Laphroaig, Glen Ord, "Jack", -and/or- 1800 Añejo?! Effin' lush cow-orkers! I need a hit from a bottle, ANY bottle, NOW!<
:flyingbottlehitshead:
11/06/08
Oh, but then again, Scottish Gaelic spelling rules were made up in a haze of usquebaugh, so maybe a little booze helps? I wish I could pour you some Auchentoshan, I got a nice '83 waiting for me to get off the antibiotics.
11/06/08
"exponetially", on the other hand, was the booze spelling.
"Hey, Seán, what's that little gas can on your desk?"
"Uh...my stash of White-Out for my monitor. Want a nip?"
Ag ól uisce beatha: Sounds great, might take you up on that given the chance. I'd like to find a MI supplier for my favorites Bunnahabhain ("bunnahavain"?) and another I remember as a smokey/oaky Straithlán (but maybe it's Stráthislá). Always have Glen Ord in da house...