These posters started appearing on London Transit Commission (LTC) buses recently.
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We're On Board.
These posters started appearing on London Transit Commission (LTC) buses recently.
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The more I see those posters on the bus, the more uncomfortable I feel. They just look creepy to me. Like some sort of zombies. Zombies? Zombies!
*Jumps to feet*
It's time to save the city transit system, baby!
*Grabs transit tickets. Runs into the street. Sirens*
Zombies? DEMONS!
The Demon reminds me of the Spong Monkeys......
hehe.
But seriously, those are some pretty awful looking posters. Why 3D? Why not illustrate with some old fashioned tools like pen and ink? Why randomly colour some people in and then not in the next ad? Why three near identical visuals to four different lines? Why WHY WHY I ask ye? Feck that's really fugly. And it looks like they worked hard at making it so.
I did some digging:
I'm tempted to ask about them about the posters....
threadjack: I've always found it a bit odd that I can't find my Pall Mall ciggies in the city that has a street called Pall Mall. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
I <3 Whisky Tango Foxtrot. :D
Dabitch, you can't threadjack a lame thread that wasn't going anywhere in the first place.
I'm glad to see others seem to know their Alpha, Bravo, Charlies. How about Morse code?
And speaking of code, Caffeinegoddess, I'm still trying to understand the meaning of what you wrote.
-- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. . --. .. ...- . ... -- . .- - .... .-. --- -... -... .. -. --. .... . .- -.. -.-. .... . .-.-.-
Also, Caff was writing a heart. < + 3 = heart, like so <3.
I can imagine an ad for a headache remedy featuring a person listening to Morse code; if it hasn't already been done.
Heart! Now I see it! Caffeinegoddess, I thought you were writing something like, "I is less than 3". I have always struggled with even basic math, so I figured I would never understand.
It would be a great radio ad, but only you, me, and a bunch of army-trained folks and nerdy hobbyist would get it. Then again, they're probably a good target market for aspirins.
I was thinking along a different line. Most people know the sound of Morse code, without being able to understand it. The da-da-dits could be just gibberish.
A person gets a headache from the sound of Morse code, uses a product that relives the headache, and this allows the person to continue on the with sound of Morse code also continuing.
Sort of like how I take aspirin to relive the headache caused by my daughters constant drumming with sticks on metal tins in her room? It's campaignable, but we need a twist! ;)
Did I just spell relief like "re-live"? I need a rolaid.
Wait until your daughter becomes a famous drummer, and then she can be in an Aspirin commercial recalling the days she would drum with sticks on metal tins in her room....
The Rolaid commercial might take some more work.
"Happiness is overrated."
Or even worse, someone will ask her to be in a Victoria's Secret viral.
At least she drums better than the wonderbra model.
Yeah but so could a mold piece of cheese. ;)
I don't think Dabitch's daughter ending up as a great drummer, and doing an Aspirin commercial is a bad thing! :)
She talks about how she started drumming, and how her mother would take Aspirin because her drumming wasn't at all very good. Some things change. Her drumming got much better. Other things don't. Aspirin is still the trusted choice for pain relief for her family.
Add some drumming baby footage, adult drumming footage, a cameo by Dabitch..... Something like that, anyway! :)
"Happiness is overrated."
And I suppose she might even talk about how the Apoteket commercial she watched a zillion times when she was a baby was directly responsible for her interest in pharmaceuticals.
Just for that I'm gonna torture y'all with this.
I'm as mesmerized by the spot as she is. But not nearly as cute!
Cute. What is it that she yells out at the end?
"Sakis!" a greek name. She insists one of the kids in the ad is her playmate Sakis.
does anyone know where this is from?
This what? The London transport authority ads or the Apoteket ad that my girl sings along to? The latter is from Sweden.
#111111" class="Apple-style-span">Apoteket - Barnförkylningsakuten - (2007) :30 (Sweden)
How children see the world around themselves fascinates me.
"Happiness is overrated."
How adults see the world around them fascinates me! Children usually see the world in a charming way. Adults, not so much!
I only wish to see one day where all the ads were made by children. What a day that would be!
"Happiness is overrated."
I sometimes think that some ads are made by children - at least in terms of skill! :-)
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
And humor. It's all fart jokes at times.
Out of the four of us, can anyone guess who the naive one is who does not have children?
"Happiness is overrated."
First off, there have been at least 6 people involved in this thread - so far - Caffeinegoddess, Dabitch, Tod.brody, TDD, jcoden, TruthInAdvertising, and myself.
I know that Tod has children, and I know that Dabitch has 1, and of course, I know my status (as does Dabitch), and it seems like TDD has children. I'm not sure if Caffeinegoddess has any - I don't know her children status prior to her recent nuptials.
TruthInAdvertising seems to be the most naive about children, but that does not preclude them (him/her) from having any.
Of course, you could be experienced with raising children, yet not have any.... :-)
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
I was actually referring to myself as the naive one. I guess my sense of humour didn't come across well on the 'net. Reading back, I forget what I thought was was so funny in the first place. I can't say I laughed even once reading that which I previously posted. Oh, well.
By the bye, I don't have children, but I am glad you think I could.
"Happiness is overrated."
It all makes sense now! :)
That I don't have children?
Yeah, well, eating out alone isn't so bad. Of course, the server asking me if I would mind if she took the one extra chair at the table for another table is a little awkward. At least there is no question of who is paying the bill at the end.
"Happiness is overrated."
I knew TDD was the spawn-less one. What do I win?
I don't know jcoden or TruthInAdvertising's status on offspring.
Also, I reckon I got the joke. It seems clear that you (TDD) don't have kids in your comment. At least to me. But then I make you with Kermit the frogs voice in my head...kidding..
I'll entertain your daughter with magic tricks! Of course, she is still at the age where she will know the coin is in my other hand; but she's also at the age where is doesn't know magic isn't real, and what fools her, she will think she can do too.
She will see me 'vanish' a playing card by tossing into the air, and then she will excitedly throw many playing cards into the air trying to make each one disappear. They won't disappear. She won't care. She'll like throwing them into the air anyway. There will be playing cards all over your home. You will want to kill me. That's when I will disappear.
I'm not certain if I can do the voice of Kermit the Frog. I think I can do Yoda....
"Happiness is overrated."
I knew TDD was the childless one too. A father can always tell these things. Sure, mess up Dabitch's home and then leave. You'll probably fill her daughter with sugar as well creating a nightmare of an evening. I mean, what's a few magic tricks without candy and Jolt! :-)
I would stay to help pick up the cards. :)
That's the ironic(?) part of doing card productions - I can make fans of playing cards and single cards appear at my fingertips out of nowhere, they all fall to the floor, and afterwards I pick up each one. That magic stuff only seems to work one way.
"Happiness is overrated."
Actually, I am also childless - unless you count raising (or at least a large portion of the raising) my then 16 year old brother and my then 11 year old brother for several years - after my father died, and then part-time caregiver* for my mother in her last few years (1995-2001), AND THEN additional caregiver* to my mother-in-law [my wife and I are the caregivers here - no other siblings], since 1995.
Also, the youngest brother now has 2 kids, and the middle one has 3 kids, each of whom have one kid [one adopted].
One more addition, I used to teach children and adults about dinosaurs at the local natural history museum (I had to stop in 1995).
Lots of kids over a long period of time.
Since I can make funny voices (yes, Kermit is one of them, along with Miss Piggy, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, and even Yakky Doddle Duck q[who's a lot easier to understand than Donald], along with his friend, Chopper (a bulldog)), I can entertain all sorts of kids, and some not-so-sober adults!
Allan...
* ==> When you help a child learn and grow, it's called raising the child. Most child learn and grow, and get better than they were. When you are helping parents, and they are going downhill, and are getting worse and worse, and you know that they won't remember (or claim not to) anything you tell them they need to know, should we call that 'lowering' the parent? Just a weird little thought....
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
Allan, you'd have been the perfect babysitter. If only I had known when my kids were little. :-)