So how much to refinAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Monday, October 27th, 2008Online mortgage ads are just getting weirder and weirder. However, the woman in this one seems to have just realized the balloon on her interest only loan is due.
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Online mortgage ads are just getting weirder and weirder. However, the woman in this one seems to have just realized the balloon on her interest only loan is due.
Channeling the spirit of Rick Griffin to sell you Coke Zero
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Rick Griffin was a psychedelic artist who did a lot of posters as well as underground comics, back in the day. Stuff like this:Note the little guys in the lower right? They're kind of a motif of his. Apparently, someone at Coke started smoking the same stuff.
The housing market is worse than I thought
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Judging by this ad at least:It may just be me, but dancing skeletons do not fill me with the urge to refinance. They fill me with the urge to stock up on canned goods, toilet paper, duct tape and shotgun shells.
Meatloaf again?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008My wife inflicted this upon me against my will, and to purge the damage this has inflicted on my soul, I inflict it upon everyone else. If you are of my generation, this will surely hurt you in your brain. . .
No, really, we’re serious…
Saturday, April 5th, 2008When did it become acceptable to blatantly lie in internet ads? Are we just so desensitized from all the Nigerian Viagra Lotteries that it just washes over us? Is it a default assumption now that all banner ads are written by Russian script-kiddies playing with an exploit they ...
Book spamming for the Lord!
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Today I got a new book spam. This has come to me via Media E-Blast, a company whose name was coined by someone in a desperate attempt to make unsolicited spam and e-mail harvesting all respectable and Web 2.0ish.Here's my first piece of advice: Paying some "consultant" ...
Turns out, Bob’s not all that happy to see you
Monday, February 4th, 2008I suppose this will come as a surprise to everyone, but apparently Bob's been duped. All that Enzyte he's been taking hasn't done squat to enhance his maleness. In fact, according to the Cincinati Enquirer, when former Enzyte exec James Teegarden Jr. got before a judge:He said employees ...
It made sense before the LSD wore off. . .
Friday, January 25th, 2008Ok, maybe I can buy the cobra. . . But what the hell is up with the Santa hat?
At least this way, there’s only one payment
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Part of an ongoing series on stupid internet ad copy:All I got to say is that's one hell of a monthly payment.
Don’t drink the product when writing your ad copy
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Or else your Robutussin ad might read like this:Two things:Love MucusTMThat woman looks way too excited that she gets MORE than just MucusTM