New Idea for Advertising Co Creatives: Add Pomo Spunk to Your Ads

Yeah the image is from adbustars and is a little ridic but it was quick and dirty so "what're you gonna do" and all that. Moving on . . .

A bus just rolled by with an ad on the side that said

Add more home to your home.

Which is funny in itself, but could've been better with a simple subtraction.

To all you who work in the add industry: If any of your ads contain the word "add," just drop that final d and suddenly you've got a Geiko subcontract that includes the fastest meta-statement ever:

Ad more home to your home.

Similarly, if your ad already mentions the fact that it is an ad, just add that "d" back on. You people are not "ad" men, you're "add" men. As in "added value."

The kids will love it. Marketing is still an art, people. Start acting like it.

Start Making $____ Today

From a Gmail targeted ad:

Fool.com: The Motley Fool - Start Making $67,000 Today - 50 minutes ago

It occurs to me that one can "Start Making" any amount of money on any given day. All one has to do is make some of that money.

I'm going to "Start Making" a million dollars today, by going to work and adding ca. $50 to my paycheck.

Also, I get a lot of targeted Gmail ads from Web sites containing the word "fool," like "coffeefool.com." Is there a hidden message here? What does Google think of me?

P.S. Multiple posts today are attempted make-up from hungover day off yesterday.

P.P.S. Also prepare for video content to start leaking from the paintcans (full of lead).

ACLU Gonzo Ad in NYT

The ACLU took out an ad on the Times' web site today, the basic conceit of which is that Habeas Corpus is a little cartoon dude who doesn't look too happy. The little guy's been kidnapped and you're looking at the side of a milk carton showing some basic info about his last known whereabouts. Here's a pic from the ACLU site (habeas.gif):



The incitement is to a letter-writing campaign to congress urging our -persons to get on that shit and start looking for Habeas Corpus. The cuteness doesn't stop there, though. The site also refers to Habeas Corpus as "Habeas," as though he were a little tike. On the playground they probably called him Habe for short or teased him occasionally by calling him "Habe-ASS." A quiet little green kid, a little troubled, but generally well-behaved and likeable. That is, before he was kidnapped and molested by some pervy old guy whose web cache, as it would later be shown, includes lots of Google Images searches for "Constitutional Rights Nude," and "Due Process Naked."

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