# Did you associate Lindsay Lohan with the eTrade commercial? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028 "2010-03-10T20:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/21 "2010-03-10T22:40:21Z")
I saw this story on Yahoo. The subtitle should really have been “Desparate Pseudo-Celeb Suffering Career Death Files Nonsense Lawsuit Just To Get Anyone, Anyone At All, Man, To Talk About Her Again”. Sheesh, what a dolt. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/22 "2010-03-10T22:43:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Many celebrities are known by one name only And I was unaware that Plantiff Lohan was among them… ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/23 "2010-03-10T22:46:49Z")
According to [this site](http://howmanyofme.com/), the 2000 census listed 98,806 people in the U.S. with the first name Lindsay. And that doesn’t count alternate spellings. Totally idiotic in my book. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/24 "2010-03-10T23:26:30Z")
I have a ReplayTV. What are these “commercials” of which you speak? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/25 "2010-03-10T23:31:39Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I have a ReplayTV. What are these “commercials” of which you speak? That thing mentioned in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555348). You know, the one you just posted in? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/26 "2010-03-10T23:34:40Z")
What’s idiotic? The lawsuit or the suggestion that the ad people intentionally used her name. The former is idiotic, the latter is almost certainly true in my view. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/27 "2010-03-10T23:38:53Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > What’s idiotic? The lawsuit or the suggestion that the ad people intentionally used her name. The former is idiotic, the latter is almost certainly true in my view. Why? As pointed out, Lindsay is a ridiculously popular name. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/28 "2010-03-10T23:45:29Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > That thing mentioned in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555348). You know, the one you just posted in? Ah, you mean the thread about _movies_. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/29 "2010-03-10T23:50:20Z")
_You’re so vain, You probably think this commercial’s about you._ No, I didn’t. But I barely know who LL is. Now, get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/30 "2010-03-11T00:01:08Z")
This reminds me of when Spike Lee sued Spike TV. No one made an association until Lee’s suit. The only difference is, Lee is incredibly more talented than Lohan is and didn’t need any spurious publicity as the result of filing a lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/31 "2010-03-11T00:21:02Z")
Lindsay Wagner should respond by suing Lindsay Lohan. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/32 "2010-03-11T00:21:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Why? As pointed out, Lindsay is a ridiculously popular name. There are lots of ridiculously popular names. It’s the milkaholic line and slutty implication that basically seals it. It’d be like them showing a black baby dribbling a basketball and calling him Michael. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/33 "2010-03-11T00:26:29Z")
Well, it’s worth a try, even to keep her “name” in the public, and she must need the money seeing as she doesn’t work. Crack, coke, meth, and god knows what else aren’t exactly cheap, I gather, and maybe the economy is making her dealers short of good shit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/34 "2010-03-11T00:42:23Z")
No, but I associate Lindsay Lohan with the bubble popping girl in the [Carnival Cruise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmFr-wrtsF0) commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/35 "2010-03-11T01:08:21Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > There are lots of ridiculously popular names. It’s the milkaholic line and slutty implication that basically seals it. So her case is going to be “Everybody knows that I’m THE slutty alcoholic Lindsay”? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/36 "2010-03-11T01:43:03Z")
Since I have a daughter named Lindsay, of course I associate any reference to her. The good news is, my daughter is preparing her lawsuit against E-Trade. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/37 "2010-03-11T03:35:43Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > There are lots of ridiculously popular names. It’s the milkaholic line and slutty implication that basically seals it. > > It’d be like them showing a black baby dribbling a basketball and calling him Michael. I actually thought of Lindsay Bluth first. I don’t know. I wouldn’t bet on whether it was intentional or not – it may very well have been, but I also think it could have been subconscious on the part of the writer. “Lindsay” is just one of those names like Ashley, Brittney, Tiffany, Courtney, etc., that just sound like the stereotypical name you’d pull out for a character like that (“cheerleader” names). Now whether Lindsay Lohan herself has colored the connotation of her first name, I don’t know. But I wouldn’t necessarily bet that it was a conscious connection. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/38 "2010-03-11T04:05:05Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It takes a pretty huge ego to think you’re the only “Lindsay” in the world. > > I guess she didn’t get the memo that her career hasn’t been relevant since Star Wars. At this point, she’s really a pseudo celebrity that’s only known for being outrageous. e.g. Paris Hilton What does Lindsay Lohan have to do with Star Wars? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/39 "2010-03-11T04:08:16Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > So her case is going to be “Everybody knows that I’m THE slutty alcoholic Lindsay”? She has no case. I’m not arguing that she does, I’m just arguing that she’s correct in guessing it’s intentional. > [@pulykamell](#): > > But I wouldn’t necessarily bet that it was a conscious connection. From an average person I might agree with your logic. But this ad came from a big name advertising agency. Grey New York was the agency, one of the biggest in the world, with headquarters in NY and LA. You can be absolutely certain that they know Lindsay Lohan very well and may very well have worked with her in the past. The point being that these are Hollywood types who eat, sleep and breathe the celebrity culture and track peoples’ pop cultural profile. There wasn’t a person in the room who came up with this ad who wasn’t reading TMZ daily, and the development of the ad probably took millions of dollars and months of production. Plenty of people along the line made the connection. Hell, I bet if this suit gets off the ground at all, her lawyer would discover emails and memos sent to Grey’s legal department to determine if they were within the law in their use prior to it’s airing. I’ve worked in Marketing for a Fortune 500 company, nothing there is an accident and they didn’t just use an employees name. There’s too much on the line to pretend that coincidence is to blame. That ad was tested and focused grouped to death long before it got used. ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028/40 "2010-03-11T08:00:47Z")
Have you guys lived in a bubble somewhere the past couple of years? Of course the commercials were lampooning her. Where did you guys get the idea that celebrity, name recognition, or amount of press coverage had anything to do with talent or success? Look at Paris Hilton or Spencer and Heidi. Sure these people are not doing anything of note, and you may not know who these dimwits are, but A LOT of people do. If you have watched any of those shows over the past few years that come on after the 5:00 news where good looking hosts shout crap about celebrities, you know that everything that Lindsay does is covered intensely, for no real reason, other than the fact that people watch the crap. They don’t cover Lindsay Wagner or Lindsey Buckingham quite so much. With all that being said, Lindsay is a celebrity (of sorts) and can take a little ribbin’ in an obviously silly commercial that only hints about her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-associate-lindsay-lohan-with-the-etrade-commercial/532028.md?page=3)