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Interesting Commercials

Posted by Hemos on from the sumthin-to-watch dept.

So, I'm sitting here half-watching the Super Bowl and admiring some of the new commericials. So far, I think that the E*trade Monkey with Horse ad has been really good, as has the Kasparov vs. The Machines - the accenture and cingular ads have been, IMHO, as bland as Wonder bread. That, and the Cingular icon looks like a bold color version of the X icon, or something. The E*Trade Matrix rip-off ad was good as well - but with one quarter left, I'm not as impressed as in past years. What do you folks think?Update: 01/29 06:29 PM by H :Check out AdCritic's Superbowl site.

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  1. pets.com by paulychamp · · Score: 5

    the pets.com puppet had a killer cameo, it's good to see he is still getting work.

  2. Make that 2 cameos by Ratteau · · Score: 5


    the pets.com puppet had a killer cameo

    Yeah, he looked great on Brittney Spears' arm during the halftime show.

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  3. superbowl.adcritic.com by jesser · · Score: 5

    If only superbowl.adcritic.com weren't superbowled... oh wait, posting this isn't going to help, is it?

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  4. Re:The attack on Phillip Morris. by Fixer · · Score: 5
    manipulate the levels of nicotine and add in other chemicals to give nic more of a kick to keep people hooked.
    This is a lie. Complete shit. But the truth is more sinister...

    Okay, people titrate their drug usage, whether it's alcohol, tobacco or heroin. This means they adjust how much they take to achieve a specific, desired level of effect. Nicotine is no different.

    Now, recall that, for some years now, a number of groups have been trying to force the tobacco companies to reduce the levels of nicotene in their products. I wonder if they have been financed by the tobacco companies themselves? Why?

    Because, by reducing the amount of the drug in each cigarette, you will SMOKE MORE to achieve the same dosage. And the cancer risk comes from total smoke exposure. So, the idea is this: Even though each cig has less drug in it, you end up smoking, and buying, more of them. Which increases your risk of developing cancer. And makes you poorer.

    Tobacco is addicting enough, they certainly don't need to add anything to it to make it more so. To be honest, I say that the anti-smoking crowd has collaberated (unwittingly, perhaps) to line the pockets of PM et. al, and to kill us smokers off even faster.

    Hence, I roll my own. I've gone from a pack a day of 100's to 10-12 regular sized cigs, per day. It also costs about $7.50 per carton's worth.

    So get your facts straight.

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