Topic: GINSU KNIVES AND CHIA PETS (Read 24949 times)

Kerry · « **Reply #30 on:** April 06, 2005, 05:36:50 AM »

CUMIN!

She'll be cumin' 'round the mountain.....

Ginny · « **Reply #31 on:** April 06, 2005, 05:49:33 AM »

'morning!

My favorite commercial was a radio ad for United Airlines. You heard a clunky rehearsal piano and a bored old guy saying, "OK, girls, we're gonna tap our little hearts out for United Airlines." As announcer talked, you heard the tap rehearsal going on in the background. The girls sang "U-ni-ted Airlines," the guy said "Higher, girls, higher," and girls sang in a higher key. They made a TV version, but it was funnier on the radio.

On TV, I like the Hershey's kisses ads, where they're doing something seasonal like figure skating (pairs) or ringing handbells ("We Wish You a Merry Christmas")

Ginny · « **Reply #32 on:** April 06, 2005, 05:55:24 AM »

DR Rodzinski - I was sorry to read in last night's posts of your friend's death.

Ben · « **Reply #33 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:15:37 AM »

All sorts of tildes (those are vibes) to Mr. Moore's inner workings

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Jrand73 · « **Reply #34 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:15:57 AM »

Wednesday.

The Dean Martin Roasts! A set of knives and the DMR!

Ben · « **Reply #35 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:18:14 AM »

Rodzinski, it's funny the things that stay with us.

I have a friend "in recovery" I won't breach confidences, but he said, when he was doing one of the steps that involve making amends for past behavior, that almost always the person to whom he was apologizing didn't remember the incident at all. Guilt hangs around for the longest time.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #36 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:20:16 AM »

Anacin....many years ago. A woman is AT THE END OF HER ROPE! She is busy cooking in the kitchen, raising the lid of a pan on the stove, an old woman holding a shaker approaches her and asks innocently: "Don't you think it needs a little salt?" The cook SLAMS down the lid on the pot and yells: "Mother, PLEASE, I'd rather do it MYSELF!"

Then there was that little graphic of a human body with a hammer in the head and some lightning and something else. The woman takes an Anacin tablet, and in a moment puts her arm around the old woman who is reading a book to a child.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Followed a few months later by a man slamming on the brakes as he drives toward a garage, pouncing out of the car to pick up a tricycle and screaming to the young woman at the back door: "Honey, haven't I told you to keep the children's toys OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY!!!"

Hahahahah

Rodzinski · « **Reply #37 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:20:21 AM »

Ginny- Thanks, I appreciate that. Others as well.

I moved away from Indiana when I was 14, so most of my friends from back then are permanently frozen as children in my mind's eye.

Ben- It's so true!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #38 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:24:06 AM »

Cumin is indeed pronounced Like "cummin".

I learned this from PDQ Bach's "Oratorio: the Spices" which had puns like "Summer is a-cumin", "Taragon of Virtue", and "Bide thy Thyme".

MBarnum · « **Reply #39 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:54:49 AM »

DR Rodzinski, that is indeed very sad about your school chum...and scary too, who would ever even think something like that would happen. I have one of those carbon monoxide alarms, but I believe it is sitting someplace without any batteries in it.

MBarnum · « **Reply #40 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:57:09 AM »

As I mentioned the other day, I love those TRAVELOCITY commercials with the little ceramic gnome...he just cracks me up.

My all time favorite commercials were for the candy MENTOS...I loved the song, and the little stories in each commercial.

And then going waaaaay back, there were the commericals for my favorite breakfast cereal FREAKIES!

td · « **Reply #41 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:58:27 AM »

Ann Miller dancing for Campbell's Great American Soups.

Hisaka · « **Reply #42 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:10:15 AM »

Hello, DR TD. How are you?

Hisaka · « **Reply #43 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:13:01 AM »

Today, Mr. Clint Eastwood came to Tokyo to visit the mayer Ishihara to ask for permission to shoot a film on The Io Island for his new production. Mr. Eastwood was quite handsome and lookd very elegant.
And the mayer Ishihara was better than Koizumi.

I wonder the spelling of "Io" works for you DRs...?

Matt H. · « **Reply #44 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:40:34 AM »

Yes, I think that Ann Miller Great American Soup commercial is likely one of the most famous and best remembered of all time by those of us who were around there to see it. A really spectacular commercial.

Right now, there is a series of commercials done in CGI featuring the voice of Antonio Bandaras as a bumblebee trying to offer his love relief from pollen allergy. I find them charming and funny.

Matt H. · « **Reply #45 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:41:43 AM »

As a kid, I was charmed by the Lucky Charms commercials.

Matt H. · « **Reply #46 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:47:30 AM »

On the subject of TV watching, I am PROUD to admit that I watch a great deal of commercial, network television. I find that many of these shows are better than 95% of the films that are being made right now. The production values are excellent, the acting is superb, and the writing is challenging and often sophisticated.

And with the advent of high definition television, the shows are more cinematic looking than ever, looking as expensive and as well produced as any commercial movie ventures that I've seen recently. (And, of course, these are produced in a mere fraction of production time and money spent on theatrical films. The quality is actually astounding.)

As for commercials, I don't watch many of them. I have small chores around the house that I can do while they play - counters to wipe down, dishes to rinse off and stack in the dishwasher, laundry to fold and put away. I make good use of the time without sitting there like a zombie watching commercials.

vixmom · « **Reply #47 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:18:53 AM »

Condolences to DR Rodzinski on the loss of your friend

vixmom · « **Reply #48 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:19:14 AM »

Congratulations to DR Kerry on your new job

Joey · « **Reply #49 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:19:41 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on April 06, 2005, 06:57:09 AM

As I mentioned the other day, I love those TRAVELOCITY commercials with the little ceramic gnome...he just cracks me up.

This may be a dumb question but are the Travelocity gnome and the movie Amelie connected? I know the gnome travels and I always figured that is where Travelocity got the idea, but I wanted to double check on that.

vixmom · « **Reply #50 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:24:27 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on April 06, 2005, 05:31:55 AM

Off to be X-rayed! What a thrill.

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Jrand73 · « **Reply #51 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:24:49 AM »

I never put the two together, DRJOEY - but you may be right!

I like the animated character in the airline commercial. He is walking around straightening his hair and telling people: "Don't think! Just book that airplane ticket!"

Sure you've got a headache, but don't take it out on her. Get Anacin for fast, Fast, FAST relief!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #52 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:26:10 AM »

LOL DR VIXMOM. that will do for the Page Three Dance as well.

Health Vibes to DRELMORE> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joey · « **Reply #53 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:28:53 AM »

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Jrand73 · « **Reply #54 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:36:23 AM »

Here is a link to some commercials - including MY favorite....scroll down a bit.

Can anyone identify the actress who yells at "her mother"? She had a sizable role in a movie starring Miss Doris Day.

Not the same actress in the picture above.

http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsex.html

vixmom · « **Reply #55 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:36:44 AM »

TOD:

Back in the early 70's (I think) there was an ad for Alka Seltzer with an actor trying to shoot a commercial "Mamma Mia! Thatsa some spicy meataballs" He kept getting it wrong or the props would go wroig and he had to keep eating these meatballs...at one point he just is saying "speecy spoosy spassy...." Hysterical!

The old Sara Lee commercials where things are going wrong for people but they cheer up with a Sara Lee dessert, while the jingle would play: "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!!"

And of course the Oreo commercials with the song

"Do you know how to eat an Oreo?
Well to do it, you unscrew it

veryfast

For a kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo first
And leave the chocolate cookie outside for last"

And :
"Mother may I have another Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookie please?"

vixmom · « **Reply #56 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:48:40 AM »

Quote from: Joey on April 06, 2005, 08:19:41 AM

This may be a dumb question but are the Travelocity gnome and the movie Amelie connected? I know the gnome travels and I always figured that is where Travelocity got the idea, but I wanted to double check on that.

DH Steve says that when he was a teenager in England that there was a story "on the telly" and in all the papers about a garden gnome that disappeared from its place in the front garden of someone's home, and the homeowners started getting postcards 'from the gnome" from all over the world. A year to the date that the gnome vanished it reappeared in its old location, but it had been repainted so that it was now sporting a tan. He had told me this story years and years ago and he said it had beenwidely reported in England, so we always thought the the commercials had been based on this incident.

vixmom · « **Reply #57 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:56:55 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 06, 2005, 12:31:16 AM

If only I had a set of Ginsu knives.

I do have a set of Ginsu knives!! I inherited them from my grandmother back in 1984. They are still sharp, never needing sharpening and indeed I even once cut a tree limb ( a Christmas tree) with one and it is still able to slice a tomato!!

vixmom · « **Reply #58 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:57:33 AM »

have you noticed all the knive ads at the top of the site?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #59 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:57:56 AM »

Wife: We need more Calgon!
Customer: Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

For me it gets no better than that.

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