...... and many moons later, I found another one to add to the bunch:

http://adland.tv/content/how-sell-hardware-stores-show-you-can-buy-tiny-...

*hahah* Consider it done Troy - congrats on your first front page post. wink

By all means, Dabitch, feel free to post these ads wherever you wish. And please - call me Troy. (Leers seductively.)

I quite like that catch troymcclure - mind if I move it (so it*s posted by you though) to the http://adland.tv/Badland pages?

McClain

Goodby

To be fair, I don*t know who is ripping off who here. Of course, it*s also possible that it could all be a coincidence - a freak occurance that defies the laws of man and nature, like Tunguska blast of 1908 or Paris Hilton*s celebrity.



Anyhow, if you visit Goodby*s site (www.goodbysilverstein.com), you*ll see a print ad for Ace Hardware (it*s ad #5) showing a tiny Ace salesman hanging on a tool rack. (The headline "Good advice is the best tool.")



Then, if you visit the website of a good yet somewhat obscure Denver agency named McClain Finlon (www.mcclainfinlon.com), you*ll see an ad for Xcel Energy Repair Care showing. . . a tiny repairman hanging on a tool rack. (The headline "Very handy appliance repair.")

It*s shocking how alike the visuals are. Like I said, I don*t which ad came first. All I do know is that I had bookmarked McClain*s site a couple of years ago (why, I don*t know) and that it doesn*t seem to have changed much since then - whereas I think the Ace ad is a relatively recent addition to Goodby*s canon.



If it Goodby did rip off McClain, it makes you wonder. I mean, first Mad Dogs and Englishmen, then McClain. Who*s next? Joe*s Advertising Shack?