Ok, for those of you who missed it, heres the most awesome commercial on this years Commercial Bowl.
A chimp is standing on a box, wearing an etrade tshirt. There are 2 clearly senile old men sitting next to him. Some annoying song starts playing, and the men start clapping along while the monkey flails about and screams a bunch. This goes on for 25 seconds.
At this point, all of america is saying "This is the dumbest commercial I've ever seen."
Then it cuts to a text screen.
"We just wasted 2 million dollars. What are you doing with your money? E*Trade.com"
An interesting side note: There was a football game worth watching interspersed in all the commercials. I was confused.
I used to go to rutgers. They charged 16 cents a minute for long distance, while legit carriers were charging 5-10 cents a minute. I was spending 200 a month to talk to my girlfriend. One time I complained, and they yelled at me. So then I wrote a letter to the paper, and was yelled at some more. I said "fine, I wont use your stupid phone anymore." Then I dug out the dusty old tape recorder I had orginally been given to tape class lectures(hah). Dropped a few quarters in the phone, taped the tones, and VOILA! Unlimited calling for only 5 cents a call from all the payphones all over the dorm.(if you don't know what the 5 cents was for, you shouldn't be doing this.) Sometimes when people are being assholes, its better to go AROUND them then THROUGH them.
I just wanted to mention that in the first 10 - 20 min this link was on/., the petition increased its # of sigs by roughly 20%. Thats 350 sigs. Good job guys.
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Ok, for those of you who missed it, heres the most awesome commercial on this years Commercial Bowl.
A chimp is standing on a box, wearing an etrade tshirt. There are 2 clearly senile old men sitting next to him. Some annoying song starts playing, and the men start clapping along while the monkey flails about and screams a bunch. This goes on for 25 seconds.
At this point, all of america is saying "This is the dumbest commercial I've ever seen."
Then it cuts to a text screen.
"We just wasted 2 million dollars. What are you doing with your money? E*Trade.com"
An interesting side note: There was a football game worth watching interspersed in all the commercials. I was confused.
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"What is that sound its making?"
I used to go to rutgers. They charged 16 cents a minute for long distance, while legit carriers were charging 5-10 cents a minute. I was spending 200 a month to talk to my girlfriend. One time I complained, and they yelled at me. So then I wrote a letter to the paper, and was yelled at some more. I said "fine, I wont use your stupid phone anymore." Then I dug out the dusty old tape recorder I had orginally been given to tape class lectures(hah). Dropped a few quarters in the phone, taped the tones, and VOILA! Unlimited calling for only 5 cents a call from all the payphones all over the dorm.(if you don't know what the 5 cents was for, you shouldn't be doing this.) Sometimes when people are being assholes, its better to go AROUND them then THROUGH them.
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"What is that sound its making?"
I just wanted to mention that in the first 10 - 20 min this link was on /., the petition increased its # of sigs by roughly 20%. Thats 350 sigs. Good job guys.
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"What is that sound its making?"
"(well, not useless, but who would want to pay to use a proprietary thing when they could have something truly free?)"
Ummmmm... Windows?
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"What is that sound its making?"