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CommercialsAmerican Express - When you need it - (1983) :30 (UK) dabitch030 years 16 weeks ago
CommercialsAapri - Aapri scrub - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 20 weeks ago
CommercialsAction Force - Latest news - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 20 weeks ago
CommercialsVauxhall Nova - On Track - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 20 weeks ago
CommercialsNBC - Steve Martins The Winds of Whopee (1983) - 0:10 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsStrohs - Cabin (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsStresstabs - Burn The Candle At Both Ends (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsSharp - Chef and Baker Battle (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsPlymouth - Made in America (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsNiagara Mohawk - Were With You (local) (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsNBC News - Cairo (1983) - 0:20 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsMiller Lite - Friendly Game of Cards (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsMerrill Lynch - Chess (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsMerchants Bank - Puzzled (local) (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsMcDonald's - Willow Creek (1983) - 0:60 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsMazda 626 - Experience 1 (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsLincoln First Bank - Out of the Money Market (local) (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsHonda Nighthawk - Just Hit Town (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsHertz - Best of Both Worlds (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsGillette Atra - Short Guy (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsEastern - Epcot Center (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsDodge - Dodge / Chrysler Compare (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsDigital - The Exclusive (1983) - 0:60 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsChrysler New Yorker - Ricardo Montalbon (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsChevy / Chevrolet - We Are USA 1 part 1 (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ooh, you know what he's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. ... Ooh, the anger dollar.
    Posted: 5 hours 2 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    The ASCII doesn't work quite as well around here, but points for effort. Might get better monospaced font if you use the CODE tag.
    Posted: 5 hours 21 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    What a terrifically unexpected comment. I can see you went straight to insulting me instead of taking apart my argument. What's the matter, too weak to type anything longer than that?
    Posted: 10 hours 22 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ha! While I'm sure that was the rationale - that they could aim for both - it's missing a key insight. Women buy romance novels, text, while men buy visual porn (gay or straight). You can't actually aim at both with one image. Going for the pink pound is perfectly fine, and in fact very wise if that's their biggest paying target, but in the case of middle-American salad dressing, I doubt it is.
    Posted: 13 hours 48 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Coke is a great example of two wrongs don't make a right. I've hated that giggling office-worker-gals idea since it first appeared in the late 80s. Seriously, who the fuck does that? In fact, that's when I stopped drinking Diet Coke. Not that they care. The Diet Coke puppets on the other hand, oh la la! They're hilarious. and Jean-Paul, gay icon & fashion king, made a straighter ad. Go figure. It's not like they're without plenty of sexual innuendo, either. You bring up a good point, there isn't much of a reason for the spokesperson to be totally nude under a picnic blanket. This is exactly the type of ad that is banned by European advertising watchdogs, and I can't help but think this is what they're hoping for (a ban gets more earned media)
    Posted: 16 hours 54 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Nobody on this website would say that only women are depicted in a sexist manner in advertising. In fact, I say sexist ads are bad for everyone. Tom Ford is an equal opportunity offender, with full frontal nude Sophie Dahl, full frontal shaved labia behind perfume bottles on his resumé. So yes, he did do that "just a vagina selling perfume" idea you have, and I immediately thought "it must smell like pee". Tom Ford has most likely inspired the gang rape images D&G used. The latter a tad more violent than simple nudity, with both hetrosexual and homosexual seemingly forced encounters and/or porn-sets. p.s. I'm a woman not blind to double standards, add that to your anecdata-pipe and smoke it.
    Posted: 1 day 17 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Spam link removed because you can buy banner ads. Neener.
    Posted: 1 day 17 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    :D Yeah, it's not working on me (not tempted to pick up an e-cig but then I quite the habit proper and am supposedly not the target anyway since I am a quitter)... But I can see how this could work. e-Cigs are put on the map, no longer that odd device someone bought in Hong Kong ten years ago, but I actually see people using these in bars. This just might put Blu on the map. E-Cigs are going to be a thing.
    Posted: 3 days 16 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    I asked him when I met him in Cannes a year later, and he said no; it's a reminder of an awesome week in his life. Even if it's not that pretty.
    Posted: 4 days 13 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Right, so him & his friend pitched Blu. If Stephen Dorf came up with the line "rise from the ashes"... well, that's not a bad line.
    Posted: 4 days 19 hours ago