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Choosy mothers may choose Jif and choosy kids may choose Skippy, but choosy commenter chose Open Comment Nights again Tuesday Night This week. We conquered our fear of “a word from our sponsor” and took on commercial interruptions of our own. But commerical are not only irritating, they also spread viruses — the evil/good link leak virus left us leaving links. The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes. We didn’t seem to mind though.

Chris seemed to have recovered from his visit from Basil and his pod experience.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

And Now a Word From Our

A word from our attendees . . . we didn’t invite sponsors.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:05 pm e
WHERE’S THE BEEF!!!
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Trisha Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
Oh, one is that orkin commercial. One is some tennis thing which is like a pong game

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candice Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:08 pm e
The orbitz housewife battle.

Hi, y’all. I’m searching for a normal day, anyone have one I could borrow?

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Tony Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:09 pm e
How about the Koolaid commercial?

Ohhh YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!

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Chris Cree Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:12 pm e
Trisha, How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?!

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:20 pm e
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner,
That is what I’d truly like to be-e-e.
Cause, if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner,
Every-one woud be in love with meeee

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Chris Cree Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:22 pm e
And Joe makes his entrance singing a singularly appropriate jingle…

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Scorpia Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:24 pm e
MMMM. That’s good. Thanks Liz, you run a great bar here.

Of course, if I have too many, it’ll be “Plop, plop, Fizz fizz” time.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:26 pm e
Plop, plop, Fizz fizz

I can’t believe I ate the whoooole thing.

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Cuileann McKenzie Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:32 pm e
Hi Liz,
I’ll take whatever ale you’ve got handy. Something Canadian would be great.

Actually, I think of Canadian when I think of favorite (or favourite as Canadians spell it) commercials. When I go back up to Toronto to visit family, I always seem to get bigger guffaws from commercials there than here. I think maybe there’s a distinctly Canadian sense of humor (humour) — to some, it might seem a little bent but it keeps me laughing.

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Scorpia Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:32 pm e
Mabel, Black Label, yeah I remember that too. ARGHH!!!

I am sitting here desperately trying to remember something besides beer.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:32 pm e
Are beer ads all we know here?

How about the new Sprint ads for the phones with the new built in theft deterrent systems?

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Scorpia Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:33 pm e
Schaeffer just came to mind. NOOOOO! Stop! Stop I say. Please…pleeeeeaaasse…..

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katiebird Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:33 pm e
What about all those old rock and roll songs that are showing up later?

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ME Strauss Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
Can you hear me now?

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:48 pm e
Okay, I think I’ve snapped out of my food obsession for the moment – where were we?

Oh yes, commercials.

Were we doing alternative slogans for companies too, like “Coke – beacuse caffeinated sugar water is addictive and keeps your kids hyperactive in school”?

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Big Roy Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:48 pm e
This is pretty good too.

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.

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katiebird Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:48 pm e
I wrote something touching about tuna. I wonder where it went?

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:49 pm e
Who remembers… Hertz, let us put you in the drivers seat.

Where the guy comes floating from nowhere into the drivers seat of a convertible?

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 7:58 pm e
“Porsche – because your mid-life crisis would be incomplete without one”

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Scorpia Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:00 pm e
AdLib, I hear you have to take the games off your drive to get any work done. True? Or should I ask: is it real or is it Memorex?

Avis: we’re number 2 so we try harder

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Chris Cree Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:02 pm e
*in his best Yoda voice* There is no try! There is only do. And do not.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:12 pm e
Of course Basil watches TV. He loves TV. Watches it all the time.

These days he’s probably not watching it as much cause he’s touring so much, but I bet he’s watching a ton of HBO cause we don’t get that in Canada.

I don’t know what his favorite commercial is, I’d have to ask him…

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Cuileann McKenzie Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:28 pm e
This all reminds me of when I started complaining about the road signage getting worse, until I found out that I needed glasses. The beholder definitely makes a difference!

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Cuileann McKenzie Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:35 pm e
I must confess, Liz, that the signage story is related to complaints I made before moving to the US. I got glasses long before moving to Austin, and I still love what I see here! Awesome!

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:38 pm e
Tricks were made for kids…

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:41 pm e
AdLib — I had a feeling you’d be a MUDder.

Cuileann — Canadian sense of humour eh? Sweet! We are a funny country…

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Easton Ellsworth Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:44 pm e
Making an all-too-rare appearance here – hi, everyone. Hi, Liz!

I love this one commercial for … Snickers, I believe … where a Kansas City Chiefs player turns to the guy painting the end zone and asks, “Who are the Chefs?” (Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers. Hehehe.)

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:49 pm e
Hey Easton…good to see you around.

That is a funny commercial.

Recently in Canada, Bell (telephone/Internet company) has these commercials with two animated beavers — comedians are voicing the beavers (names escape me). Some are so-so but a couple of them have been very funny. There was one where one of the beavers was watching hockey and coughed up a hair ball.

Ahh…beavers…

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 8:54 pm e
Frogs?
How about the Bud-wis-er Lizards?
They went on well after the SuperBowl Phenom.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:09 pm e
Right now I’m looking at a google ad that says

TV Commercial Jingles
All Originals Better Prices 100%
Guaranteed Faster Recall.
www.jinglebrokers.com

Latest TV Ads
Watch all the latest TV
Ads as they break for free
www.thinkbox.tv

Since when did you have to pay for them?

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:13 pm e
AdLib — you don’t get Canadian commercials in Norway? What a rip-off.

If you go to http://www.frankandgordon.ca/ you’ll see the website dedicated to the beavers. Frank and Gordon.

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:13 pm e
I thought Liz was talking about Charlie the Tuna, from Starkist.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:14 pm e
The Geico gecko can be pretty funny…fairly swarthy little gecko.

No brownie takers? Interviewees for small business podcast?

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:14 pm e
Well, I did get canadian commercials on the TV when I was living in Canada, but they didn’t follow me home to Norway

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Rick Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:18 pm e
Ooh… I forgot all about Charlie the Tuna. “Sorry, Charlie”.

I’ll take a Brownie! Chocolate should never be refused.

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ah Pek Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:18 pm e
Dunno ’bout commercials elsewhere, but over here, they have banned commercials on,
cigarettes,
alcohols,
scantily dressed women.
dull huh?

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ME Strauss Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:23 pm e
ah pek,
We don’t have cigarette or alcohol either. Worse we have Paris Hilton commercials. Now she should be banned — ugly.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:26 pm e
I will email brownie recipes — it’s a bit long for posting here.

Liz – I may call you on the interview thing – it’s for the Great Big Small Business Show (http://www.gbsbs.com)

And this just in — 2 keys just BROKE OFF my Dell laptop. The N and the M. I’m typing on the little plastic nubs underneath the keys which I can’t reattach!!

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Joe Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:26 pm e
Liz,
You don’t have alcohol commercials in Chicago?
I guess Elliott Ness did his job better than I thought.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pm e
DELL
where you don’t need all of the letters
just learn to spell words creatively

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Rick Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:29 pm e
Only beer commercials allowed, no hard alcohol. Maybe the FCC thinks beer is food.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:33 pm e
It’s near impossible to type quickly without keys.

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cat Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:36 pm e
Hi Liz, Hi all. For US commercials I’m about 20 years behind so it won’t count (but I do remember “where’s the beef”).

And being busy (snowed) I’ll leave some link love and run …

Although not strictly commercials, the below are some of my ad favs.

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Rick Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 9:44 pm e
Hi and bye, Cat. I wonder why we don’t have tattoo commercials in the US?

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Phil Gerbyshak Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:06 pm e
My favorite commercial was the old DoubleMint twins commercials. Those, and those old “Freedent’s the one that took the stick out of gum,” if for nothing else but the silly jingles that always stuck in my head.

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katiebird Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:08 pm e
My new favorite is the Dairy Queen series. There’s actually two. A bickering couple who eat gigantic ice cream treats and another with two men friends who always eat sandwiches. They’re very funny.

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Starbucker Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:09 pm e
Hi everybody! Just got back from dinner here in Billings, MT (yes Liz another “Rockies drive” today – sweet). My favorite commercial – that cell phone commercial about the older business guy who talks about “sticking it to the man”, and his assistant says “but YOU are the man”. Priceless.

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Trisha Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:10 pm e
There is a oppossum out on our deck right now! Sorry, that has nothing to do with commercials.

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katiebird Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:12 pm e
Trisha, I once had an opossum in my living room for a week or so. It’s one of my ’stories’ and always a hit.

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Starbucker Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:13 pm e
Hey Phil, Tricia, katiebird, Ad Lib – do we still have a quorum? At least to keep Liz’ bar open!

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katiebird Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:14 pm e
Starbucker, I’m here for sure — what’s on the table?

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 10:14 pm e
I had hedgehogs on my doorstep last week

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