OT: Shoebox Commercial

Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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[..] the new Shoebox greeting card commercial [..]
I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever
heard anything so annoying!

And yet you are able to remember the product being sold perfectly... A
job well-done on the advertising agency's part. Hallmark got their
money's worth for Shoebox.

ObFood: Meatloaf.

The Ranger

Wayne Boatwright said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial
with a handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉
sitting around exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

LOL Well, I've seen it but I can't say I've heard all the variety of laughs
they exhibit. But then again, it's been years since I've been to a "hen
party" (aka bridal shower) where one would be laughing over a card. However,
catch me with something that hits my funny bone and when I get going I do
tend to *snort* at the end. John thinks it's cute; he points it out and
laughs, which then makes him *snort* and then we both just get hysterical.
This is usually halfway through the bottle of wine 🙂

Was watching a re-run of 'That 70's Show' late last night. They're all in
the basement smoking weed and talking about how they come up with brilliant
thoughts but then they can never remember them the next day. So someone
says they should get a tape recorder, then they could play it back and write
it all down! Yeah, man, that's brilliant! I think you had to be there. In
fact, I think I was, once 😉

Jill

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Was watching a re-run of 'That 70's Show' late last night. They're
all in the basement smoking weed and talking about how they come up
with brilliant thoughts but then they can never remember them the next
day. So someone says they should get a tape recorder, then they could
play it back and write it all down! Yeah, man, that's brilliant! I
think you had to be there. In fact, I think I was, once 😉

And you forgot the tape recorder! 😉

Andy

On Thu 11 Aug 2005 10:53:39a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Wayne Boatwright said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial
with a handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉
sitting around exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

LOL Well, I've seen it but I can't say I've heard all the variety of
laughs they exhibit. But then again, it's been years since I've been to
a "hen party" (aka bridal shower) where one would be laughing over a
card. However, catch me with something that hits my funny bone and when
I get going I do tend to *snort* at the end. John thinks it's cute; he
points it out and laughs, which then makes him *snort* and then we both
just get hysterical. This is usually halfway through the bottle of wine
🙂

Just one person snorting a laugh can be very funny. Repetitive commercials
of half a dozen make odd laughter noises (beyond snorts) is just plain
irritating! :-)

Quoted message said:

Was watching a re-run of 'That 70's Show' late last night. They're all
in the basement smoking weed and talking about how they come up with
brilliant thoughts but then they can never remember them the next day.
So someone says they should get a tape recorder, then they could play it
back and write it all down! Yeah, man, that's brilliant! I think you
had to be there. In fact, I think I was, once 😉

I think a lot of us were there, once. ;-)

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial with a
handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting around
exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything
so annoying!

Heh, that drives me up a wall, too. There's a commercial for Huntington's
whatever tutoring, the woman comes banging through the door and screeches
at her kid ... I can't change the channel fast enough. Deja vu all over
again.

nancy

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial with a
handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting around
exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything
so annoying!

Heh, that drives me up a wall, too. There's a commercial for Huntington's
whatever tutoring, the woman comes banging through the door and screeches
at her kid ... I can't change the channel fast enough. Deja vu all over
again.

nancy

On Thu 11 Aug 2005 11:59:26a, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial with
a handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting
around exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

Heh, that drives me up a wall, too. There's a commercial for
Huntington's whatever tutoring, the woman comes banging through the door
and screeches at her kid ... I can't change the channel fast enough.
Deja vu all over again.

nancy

Haven't seen that one yet. Don't think I want to! :-)

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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Wayne Boatwright said:

How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial with a
handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting around
exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything
so annoying!

It is getting a bit too much airplay to continue to be amusing; however, it
was amusing the first dozen times I saw it. It reminded me of the mother of
my children, who had a distinctive laugh (I imagine she still does, I just
don't hear it anymore), similar to one of the ones in the commercial.

--
To email, replace Cujo with Juno

Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]> wrote in
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How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial
with a handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting
around exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

I have yet to see the commercial.

Ob Food:

One must always eat the "Do Not Eat" packets, residing in the shoe box, or
the shoes will die.

Michael

On Thu 11 Aug 2005 02:40:33p, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]> wrote in
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How many of you have seen the new Shoebox greeting card commercial
with a handful of woman (I hesitate to use the term "ladies"😉 sitting
around exhibiting their unique "laughs"?

I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

I have yet to see the commercial.

Ob Food:

One must always eat the "Do Not Eat" packets, residing in the shoe box,
or the shoes will die.

Michael

Contrary to the "Eat Me" and "Drink Me" labels in _Alice in Wonderland_?

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Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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The Ranger said:

Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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[..] the new Shoebox greeting card commercial [..]
I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever
heard anything so annoying!

And yet you are able to remember the product being sold perfectly... A
job well-done on the advertising agency's part. Hallmark got their
money's worth for Shoebox.

True enough to an extent. There was a gun dealer in Denver, Don's
Guns, who had the *most* obnoxious commercial: "I don't like to make
money. I just love to sell guns. Heh. Heh. Heh." And the "Heh. Heh.
Heh" was just smarmy. Remember the name of his gun shop to this day,
though, don't I?

OTOH, there's a radio commercial here in southern California that has
as a tag line, "You're killing me, Larry," done in the most obnoxious
tone of voice imaginable - all I can tell you is, it's a mattress
company and if I ever recall *which* mattress company, I will boycott
it for the rest of my life. Same reason I haven't bought Doublemint
gum in 20 years <g>

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Thu 11 Aug 2005 10:52:18a, The Ranger wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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[..] the new Shoebox greeting card commercial [..]
I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever heard
anything so annoying!

And yet you are able to remember the product being sold perfectly... A
job well-done on the advertising agency's part. Hallmark got their
money's worth for Shoebox.

Not necessarily. I remember the product alright, and I'll remember never to
buy them. I never much liked them anyway and, in general, I prefer American
Greetings cards over Hallmark.

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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Squeaks said:

OTOH, there's a radio commercial here in southern California that has
as a tag line, "You're killing me, Larry," done in the most obnoxious
tone of voice imaginable - all I can tell you is, it's a mattress
company and if I ever recall *which* mattress company, I will boycott
it for the rest of my life.

That would be Sit 'N Sleep. But I think they quit using those characters: I
listen to KNX when I drive through LA (can't beat traffic reports every six
minutes!), and Sit 'N Sleep was a major advertiser on that station, but I
didn't hear the notorious whiner ONCE on a recent drive-through.

Bob

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

OTOH, there's a radio commercial here in southern California that has
as a tag line, "You're killing me, Larry," done in the most obnoxious
tone of voice imaginable - all I can tell you is, it's a mattress
company and if I ever recall *which* mattress company, I will boycott
it for the rest of my life.

There is one up here that I can give you the telephone number of
<singing> 1-800-mattres, but I couldn't tell you their name to save my
life.

Wayne Boatwright said:

Not necessarily. I remember the product alright, and I'll remember never to
buy them. I never much liked them anyway and, in general, I prefer American
Greetings cards over Hallmark.

I haven't been subjected to that ad as far as I can recall, but I
guess ShoeBox is a female thing... I like them a lot. They're
slightly goofy and not overly sentimental.

jmcquown said:

However,
catch me with something that hits my funny bone and when I get going I do
tend to *snort* at the end. John thinks it's cute; he points it out and
laughs, which then makes him *snort* and then we both just get hysterical.
This is usually halfway through the bottle of wine 🙂

This topic made me look up Shoebox cards... they have a game called
Pick the Punchline. You get a card front and three choices. One is
the correct punchline. I did pretty well, but got so many right in
the beginning that I wasn't sure if there were any wrong answers.

http://tinyurl.com/9nlk9

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:52:18 -0700, "The Ranger"

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[..] the new Shoebox greeting card commercial [..]
I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever
heard anything so annoying!

And yet you are able to remember the product being
sold perfectly... A job well-done on the advertising
agency's part. Hallmark got their money's worth for
Shoebox.

True enough to an extent. There was a gun dealer in
Denver, Don's Guns, who had the *most* obnoxious
commercial: "I don't like to make money. I just love
to sell guns. Heh. Heh. Heh." And the "Heh. Heh. Heh"
was just smarmy. Remember the name of his gun shop
to this day, though, don't I?

That's what the advertisers are now shooting [sorry 'bout that pun] for,
too. It has to be obnoxious enough to stick over all the other obnoxious
jingles, sound bytes, glitzy bits. An intelligently done ad doesn't
sell, unfortunately, to the masses.

Quoted message said:

OTOH, there's a radio commercial here in southern
California that has as a tag line, "You're killing me,
Larry," done in the most obnoxious tone of voice
imaginable - all I can tell you is, it's a mattress company
and if I ever recall *which* mattress company, I
will boycott it for the rest of my life. Same reason
I haven't bought Doublemint gum in 20 years <g>

I'm like you with regard to obnoxiousness factor. It might catch me off
guard once, maybe twice... But by the third time, I'm changing the
channel or popping in a CD. If a station causes me to change the channel
due to one of their
gotta-play-the-same-10-second-bit-12-times-every-15-minutes... I write A
Letter explaining why I have found it necessary to no longer listen to
the station playing that noise. I also CC the letter to whatever
business is hawking their ware. I'm unsure if it's been successful but
it makes me feel good and you can rarely buy happiness for 37¢ anymore.

ObFoodAd: JIF Peanut Butter: "Choosy mothers choose JIF."

The Ranger

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[..] the new Shoebox greeting card commercial [..]
I'd like to slit their throats! :-) I don't think I've ever
heard anything so annoying!

And yet you are able to remember the product being
sold perfectly... A job well-done on the advertising
agency's part. Hallmark got their money's worth for
Shoebox.

Not necessarily. I remember the product alright, and I'll
remember never to buy them.

You are in the vast minority with regards to that, unfortunately. It's
like finding a small restaurant that serves tasty food at great prices
but it eventually closes because places like Olive Garden and Applebee's
are able to steal customers.

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[..] in general, I prefer American Greetings cards
over Hallmark.

I don't have a preference; whichever is convenient at the grocery store,
gift shop, wherever I am when that particular need arrives -- that's the
greet card that gets my business.

The Ranger
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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

True enough to an extent. There was a gun dealer in Denver, Don's
Guns, who had the *most* obnoxious commercial: "I don't like to make
money. I just love to sell guns. Heh. Heh. Heh." And the "Heh. Heh.
Heh" was just smarmy. Remember the name of his gun shop to this day,
though, don't I?

Or for those in Chicagoland:

588-2300 Empire!

I haven't live in Chicagoland for...humm...almost 25 years and I could
still call Empire for carpet if I wanted to.

-L.