Commercials I would love to see... - Page 3

desertgrandma · 12-09-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I want to know which forest he's in the middle of where he's getting such good reception

Its a Kindle. You can get reception anywhere!!

(Not really, but this is a commercial, after all)

ShortNCuddlyAm · 12-09-2008, 04:41 PM

*to be read in Received Pronunciation/Queens English/BBC English* "In other news, the Advertising Standards Authority today received 143 complaints from people concerning the new Kindle advert. Two people were complaining that they did not get the reception the adverts had led them to believe they would. The other 141 registered complaints concerning the 142 other people in the forest with them..."

zelda_pinwheel · 12-09-2008, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

*to be read in Received Pronunciation/Queens English/BBC English* "In other news, the Advertising Standards Authority today received 143 complaints from people concerning the new Kindle advert. Two people were complaining that they did not get the reception the adverts had led them to believe they would. The other 141 registered complaints concerning the 142 other people in the forest with them..."

desertgrandma · 12-09-2008, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

*to be read in Received Pronunciation/Queens English/BBC English* "In other news, the Advertising Standards Authority today received 143 complaints from people concerning the new Kindle advert. Two people were complaining that they did not get the reception the adverts had led them to believe they would. The other 141 registered complaints concerning the 142 other people in the forest with them..."

Okay, you can work with Lazy Scot.

LazyScot · 12-09-2008, 05:20 PM

Scene: Airport check-in.

Red-faced, exhausted traveller is trying to check in for their flight. A debate is on-going about the size and weight of their hand luggage. Eventually, the traveller moves a huge dictionary, and about 50 books into a new suitcase. "That'll be $279 is excess baggage charges. Plus taxes." Sounds of screaming as fade out.

Fade in to cool, stylishly dressed traveller who saunters up to the check-in with a just their liseuse as hand luggage, speedily gets their boarding card and walks off.

"<insert name here>. For easier, lighter travel."

zelda_pinwheel · 12-09-2008, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Scene: Airport check-in.

Red-faced, exhausted traveller is trying to check in for their flight. A debate is on-going about the size and weight of their hand luggage. Eventually, the traveller moves a huge dictionary, and about 50 books into a new suitcase. "That'll be $279 is excess baggage charges. Plus taxes." Sounds of screaming as fade out.

Fade in to cool, stylishly dressed traveller who saunters up to the check-in with a just their liseuse as hand luggage, speedily gets their boarding card and walks off.

"<insert name here>. For easier, lighter travel."

oh wow, that's going to resonate with a LOT of people.

mtravellerh · 12-09-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh wow, that's going to resonate with a LOT of people.

Especially ski tourists

ShortNCuddlyAm · 12-09-2008, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Scene: Airport check-in.

Red-faced, exhausted traveller is trying to check in for their flight. A debate is on-going about the size and weight of their hand luggage. Eventually, the traveller moves a huge dictionary, and about 50 books into a new suitcase. "That'll be $279 is excess baggage charges. Plus taxes." Sounds of screaming as fade out.

Fade in to cool, stylishly dressed traveller who saunters up to the check-in with a just their liseuse as hand luggage, speedily gets their boarding card and walks off.

"<insert name here>. For easier, lighter travel."

That would sell hundreds of whichever liseuse it was - brilliant!

But also - play fair and give me material I can work with here!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 12-09-2008, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Okay, you can work with Lazy Scot.

Thank you! We're working out the details behind the scenes

zelda_pinwheel · 12-09-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by mtravellerh

Especially ski tourists

...but not JUST them !!

(one summer, a friend of mine showed me the books she was planning on taking on vacation with her to her parents' house. there were about 20 of them. a few days before i took the train down to join her for a weekend, she called me and asked me if i could go and buy her another book, because she had read all of the ones she took and they didn't have the one she wanted in the village where her parents live.

)

LazyScot · 12-09-2008, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

*to be read in Received Pronunciation/Queens English/BBC English* "In other news, the Advertising Standards Authority today received 143 complaints from people concerning the new Kindle advert. Two people were complaining that they did not get the reception the adverts had led them to believe they would. The other 141 registered complaints concerning the 142 other people in the forest with them..."

NewsReader: "The on-going legal case over unfair advertising in the Kindle advert rumbles on. Today the court was taken to the forest in the advert."
(cut to VT report) scene: the clearing is filled with the court and entourage. At the very centre is a metal mesh cage, about 7 foot high and 8 foot square. Sitting in the center of it is a person with a tin-foil hat, holding something wrapped in several bags.
NewsReader voiceover: "The complainant showed how, whilst sitting in a faraday cage in the forest and holding their Kindle inside four electrostatic protection bags, they were unable to reliably download the books. The defense counsel questioned if it was reasonable to attempt to use the Kindle in such a fashion. The complainant replied that there was nothing in either the advert or the user manual that stated they shouldn't attempt such use, and that it was essential to take such precautions against unfair spying. The case continues."

zelda_pinwheel · 12-09-2008, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

NewsReader: "The on-going legal case over unfair advertising in the Kindle advert rumbles on. Today the court was taken to the forest in the advert."
(cut to VT report) scene: the clearing is filled with the court and entourage. At the very centre is a metal mesh cage, about 7 foot high and 8 foot square. Sitting in the center of it is a person with a tin-foil hat, holding something wrapped in several bags.
NewsReader voiceover: "The complainant showed how, whilst sitting in a faraday cage in the forest and holding their Kindle inside four electrostatic protection bags, they were unable to reliably download the books. The defense counsel questioned if it was reasonable to attempt to use the Kindle in such a fashion. The complainant replied that there was nothing in either the advert or the user manual that stated they shouldn't attempt such use, and that it was essential to take such precautions against unfair spying. The case continues."

i'm going to run out of lolpandas !!

desertgrandma · 12-09-2008, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

NewsReader: "The on-going legal case over unfair advertising in the Kindle advert rumbles on. Today the court was taken to the forest in the advert."
(cut to VT report) scene: the clearing is filled with the court and entourage. At the very centre is a metal mesh cage, about 7 foot high and 8 foot square. Sitting in the center of it is a person with a tin-foil hat, holding something wrapped in several bags.
NewsReader voiceover: "The complainant showed how, whilst sitting in a faraday cage in the forest and holding their Kindle inside four electrostatic protection bags, they were unable to reliably download the books. The defense counsel questioned if it was reasonable to attempt to use the Kindle in such a fashion. The complainant replied that there was nothing in either the advert or the user manual that stated they shouldn't attempt such use, and that it was essential to take such precautions against unfair spying. The case continues."

'sigh. I never realized we would have to deal with those of the lower IQ variety.
Of COURSE the Kindle won't work with redheads!!!

Steven Lyle Jordan · 12-09-2008, 05:48 PM

Scene: An office. In the foreground, a man or woman in a business-cut suit is packing a reader into a briefcase. Behind them, in the background, is an unobstructed view of a vast wall of conspicuously empty bookshelves.

Caption: "Take them all with you. Yes, all of them."

ShortNCuddlyAm · 12-09-2008, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

NewsReader: "The on-going legal case over unfair advertising in the Kindle advert rumbles on. Today the court was taken to the forest in the advert."
(cut to VT report) scene: the clearing is filled with the court and entourage. At the very centre is a metal mesh cage, about 7 foot high and 8 foot square. Sitting in the center of it is a person with a tin-foil hat, holding something wrapped in several bags.
NewsReader voiceover: "The complainant showed how, whilst sitting in a faraday cage in the forest and holding their Kindle inside four electrostatic protection bags, they were unable to reliably download the books. The defense counsel questioned if it was reasonable to attempt to use the Kindle in such a fashion. The complainant replied that there was nothing in either the advert or the user manual that stated they shouldn't attempt such use, and that it was essential to take such precautions against unfair spying. The case continues."

:lolsquirrel:

(Well, it seems more appropriate in a wood!)

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12-09-2008, 04:41 PM	#32
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	to be read in Received Pronunciation/Queens English/BBC English "In other news, the Advertising Standards Authority today received 143 complaints from people concerning the new Kindle advert. Two people were complaining that they did not get the reception the adverts had led them to believe they would. The other 141 registered complaints concerning the 142 other people in the forest with them..."

12-09-2008, 05:20 PM	#35
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Scene: Airport check-in. Red-faced, exhausted traveller is trying to check in for their flight. A debate is on-going about the size and weight of their hand luggage. Eventually, the traveller moves a huge dictionary, and about 50 books into a new suitcase. "That'll be $279 is excess baggage charges. Plus taxes." Sounds of screaming as fade out. Fade in to cool, stylishly dressed traveller who saunters up to the check-in with a just their liseuse as hand luggage, speedily gets their boarding card and walks off. "<insert name here>. For easier, lighter travel."

12-09-2008, 05:48 PM	#44
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Scene: An office. In the foreground, a man or woman in a business-cut suit is packing a reader into a briefcase. Behind them, in the background, is an unobstructed view of a vast wall of conspicuously empty bookshelves. Caption: "Take them all with you. Yes, all of them."