# Commercials that actually make me want to boycott the product

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340 "2006-07-13T16:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/141 "2006-11-09T20:28:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Beadalin]  
The new commercials Amp’d phones, where “everyday” people blather on and on and ON and ON about the stupid phone. I hate every single spokesperson in them, [espcially this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkHt6eCvdEw). I just want to punch him in the face.  
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I knew which guy you were talking about before i even clicked the link. He has to be one of the most annoying people on television, and that’s quite a feat.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/142 "2006-11-09T20:45:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Mishell]  
That’s what people I knew called it when I was in college 10 years ago, so I don’t think Southern Comfort came up with it. However, it annoyed me back then, and I’m sure it would annoy me now if I saw the commercials.

I had to take a double shot of that crap, through a straw, at my weirdo unchartered sorority initiation. Disgusting.  
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You can move it back at least another 10 years, as that’s what we called it in college in the 80s. SoCo didn’t nickname itself, at least for that ad campaign.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-actually-make-me-want-to-boycott-the-product/364340/143 "2006-11-13T23:39:03Z")

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> [@Pixiesnix](#):
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> Also, the ads for Pizza Hut’s “Brooklyn Style” pizza, which postulates that everyone from Brooklyn is an insufferable prick.

Have you ever _been_ to Brooklyn? 😉

In all fairness, that cab driver was folding his pizza like a wuss.

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