Comic for Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Posted: 12:12 am, Thursday, May 18th

Foosball! Whee!

You know what ads I hate? Got two of them. First, any cell phone ad (usually on the radio) where they're pitching the network to a specific region, and just have someone randomly name all the freaking neighborhoods for examples of where the phone works. WEEI plays a Verizon ad all the time where the people just rattle off Boston neighborhoods. For some reason, this just aggravates the hell out of me. And the other one that gets me are those super-creepy 1-800-DENTIST ads where everyone in them is crazy. Some wild-eyed mom profusely thanking some random dentist because some wild-eyed phone operator told them to go there. Or the one where there's some smarmy shit-eater at the 1-800-DENTIST HQ can't believe how awesome his job is that he got to get someone to go back to the dentist. God, friggin' get over yourself, 1-800-DENTIST.

Good article from the Voice about rezoning and the imminent threat of high-rises in Williamsburg. I've been venturing into Williamsburg more and more in the past few months, and while I doubt there's any way they can keep the towers out - money talks, after all - it will be a crying shame to further mess up that area. Also, and I know it's presented this way because it's the Voice and the Voice is wary of businessmen, but the dude behind it all seems more than shady. I'm sure the construction workers will be psyched about it when it goes through, but when you add this to the Nets complex going in and ruining a bunch of brownstone neighborhoods, I kind of worry about the overall Brooklyness of the borough.

Another article from the Voice - has anyone read King Dork? It seems to be getting good reviews. I just finished the Woman in White (great book, but unless you like interminably long period mysteries with some pretty implausible reasoning behind it and female characters that faint for no clear reason, I don't know if I'd recommend it)(seriously, what was with the constitution of British women in the 1800s? did they really faint dead away all the time?) and am about to start the Left Hand of God, but after that, could be King Dork..

Geez, who needs content?

Oh man, today's MySpace nightmare is fantastic. (Sound) Make sure to check out the past few blog entries. "I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!!!!!!" is actually *not* the best entry.

Hey, you know what you pretty much only have like one day left to do after today?

bullfrog

Corsets. That's why they fainted dead away.

Did all the ladies wear corsets, or just the "lady" class? Because a few of the house servants seemed to faint at the drop of a hat, too.

Another ad that drives me nuts - those stupid HSBC ads where it's like, "What's your point of view on gorillas? Are they dangerous, or endangered?" Why do you care, HSBC? What the hell does that have to do with banking?

Wait, Rove said "we're doing a heck of a job"? Awesome. From now on, when someone fucks up royally, my comment is going to be "you're doing a heck of a job over there, man." This is the greatest quote I've read since yesterday, why Ty Willingham was quoted in the Seattle Times as saying "I have no talent. I just come out here and try to hang in there."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2006/05/15/AR2006051501217.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2 002999034_uwfb17.html

i HATE those 1-800-DENTIST ads....they make me want to throw things at the TV.

On the subject of ads we hate...my personal least favorite are the ones for the diet program where they send you all your food frozen. And they claim to have some "new scientific breakthrough separating good carbs from bad".

Or maybe...It's called PORTION CONTROL. that's why it works. ARGH.

Ads we like...

The new Mac ads with the hip guy in the hoodie (what show is he from?) and the older, balding guy in the bad suit. My favorite is the viruses one. http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

(And, no, servants generally didn't wear the entirely restrictive corsets that cause one to faint from lack of blood or organs being in the wrong place.)

Maybe the author didn't actually hang with too many servants and just figured they all did that..

I'm sure there's an ad I like right now.. Hm. Well, it's certainly not the Dodge ones with the inbreds getting all excited about a Hemi, or the Verizon one where the guys can't figure out where to get their mom a phone with a good network while holding a Verizon phone in front of a Verizon store... Good idea, companies, make your customers look like morans. That'll work.

Um, wow. From EDSBS:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=268346

This is the guy from the Mac commercials. I mostly remember him from "I Love the '80s," but he was also in "Dodgeball."

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519043/

The new Wendy's Frosty commercials are amusing. "The only soquid you eat with a fpoon." That's fun to say.

Oh, yeah, that one's good. I like anything the Burger King appears in, too.

Am I correct in reading this, they're re-airing that crappy flashback episode before the Lost finale? Just want to know what time I have to start paying attention.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index.html

Thanks, RAW--I can now resume productive work. I actually recognize him from Ed--I had a friend who insisted on watching it when it was on before the West Wing.

if you've read Freakonomics (or even if you haven't, although I highly recommend it) - this is really facinating. I think I could type in names for hours. http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105. html

Ads I live....the CitiCards identity theft commercials where they dub over the voices of the people on screen. The new one with the old ladies cracks me up!

The King making the vikings look like a pack of chumps still kills me.

Two of the commercials that drove me absolutly nuts were anything (iPod) where Bono was singing that terrible song from how to dismantle an atomic bomb and the cell phone commercial where the guy drives cross country listening to "The Weight" by The Band.

ruined the song for me...

There is a stunning lack of Elvis impersonators in commericals now-a-days...

Uno, dos, tres, 14, man. I don't think I remember the one with The Band song in it.

I think the dude in the third panel looks like Ozzie Smith.

Of course you do, 15. Of course you do.