I’ve gotten some nice stuff from my company with their logo. But, we’re a big company. We have our logo everywhere!
As for 4Imprint and their ilk, sometimes I want a cup or a shirt with a fake logo. If they make small runs like onesies and twosies, it might be fun. Current printing tech probably doesn’t require a run of 10K to be cost effective, I would think.
In high school I silk screened a bunch of sweat shirts with fake college logos for next to no money, no reason that 45 years later that can’t be done.
There was a place nearby that did screen-printing and embroidery of cheap tchotchkes. I was all set to take in a baseball cap and have them stitch type* on the front, but suddenly the storefront was abandoned.
Other places (and online) all have larger minimum orders.
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*The protagonist of my favorite audiobook, Fear Nothing, finds a cap with “Mystery Train” on it. No one will get it, but I will…
Oh, my insurance company covered the repairs right away, but they were after Geico for months. Didn’t seem normal to me, but I haven’t been involved in many accidents that involved insurance companies.
From what year?
Generous! I got a free hat when I requested a bump cap insert in order to comply with new safety rules.
Hey, Bit-O-Honeys only get better with age (and pocket lint).
I don’t think my quality of life was a concern, considering that the Big Boss got angry and accused me of being a traitor, and wanted me to leave without my two weeks’ notice (silly me, I reminded her of all the projects that would miss deadlines if I did that…).
There’s a commercial for some kind of medication that involves and injection. And it’s something like “it’s hard to believe how such a tiny prick could have such a powerful effect.” I guess it’s just my dirty mind the makes it bad.
They started to feature him again about 2 years ago when the camera panned through a huge dressing room with all the former Geico actors getting made up. Someone asks, “Hey, where is the camel”? Caveman replies in a snotty voice, “Mr Big Shot has his own trailer”.
I like the caveman! I never got tired of the one where the Geico rep was apologizing to them at a fancy restaurant. The one caveman ordered the duck with mango salsa, but the other one said, “I’m not hungry” while glaring at the rep. Still slays me!
Indeed. Specifically the original audiobook. THE best matching of reader and protagonist (who has a skin condition where he can’t go out in daylight, so Keith Szarabajka voices him with a breathy, almost spiritual moodiness). Intriguing, with a dash of Sci-Fi.
The sequel (“Seize the Night”) turns up the hard SF with some fun time travel.
She seems so eager to demonstrate her product. I’m sure there’s a market for that sort of thing. Combine that with the old Lume ad showing people sniffing other people’s crevices, and you might have something there.
If I happened to be the target market, I would be so insulted by the tone of those ads. I remember an older Colonial Penn ad that I ranted about here - “The lock we’re talking about isn’t the lock on your door.” [cut to video clips of doors being locked]
