Re: Coke ad and softdrink dilemmas

[Simon Favre <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lighten up, folks. If a boycott happened everytime there was a stupid
commercial on TV, the world economy would have disintegrated years ago.
You should have seen the row on the Italian cars Digest over the Chevy 
truck ad featuring a Fiat Spider driver who has a hole cut in a sheet of 
plywood so he can carry it on his Spider. The hole is for his head to 
stick thru. Now THAT'S a dumb commercial! At least in the Coke ad, we
have one "slightly used" mistress trying to displace another. I thought
it was funny.

There are a couple of things I noticed about that commercial. We never
hear the Spider's engine. All we hear is the tires rolling to a stop.
The car is in such bad shape, my guess is that they took a car headed
for the crusher anyway. The ad is set in the middle of the desert. There
isn't really a cliff, the car just disappears. There's probably a small
gulley behind it. They probably just towed the car out and put it back
on the hauler headed to the crusher. IMO, the babe did him a favor. ;=)

David Bishop wrote:

>I finally saw the Coke ad, what sacrilege! I can only hope that they didn't 
>really trash the car as we only see it disappearing backwards, perhaps it 
>just backed down a ramp? Now, do I boycott the product ? This is a real 
>dilemma, because I can't stand other colas...

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