You never saw movies where the clever crooks cut the phone line before breaking in? I would argue that the real benefit of using a cell signal for the alarm is due to many households not having landlines anymore. SimpliSafe was ahead of the curve in using a cell signal for the alert. And they don’t charge extra for it, unlike many other alarm companies.
Yes. I’ve also seen James Bond use an x-ray hidden inside a cigarette case to open a safe. Doesn’t mean that’s the threat I need to guard my home against.
Sure, I can see a need for a security system to use a cellular connection, and maybe even some benefits. I just think it’s unfounded scare tactics to phrase it the way they do. Do you honestly think vulnerable landlines are a problem homeowners need to be conerned with?
Oh yeah, I like the Kraken too.
One or two are innocuous, but try sitting through six or eight of them in rapid succession. The Science Channel is particularly bad about this for some reason.
Move over Darrel Hammond, there’s a new Colonel Sanders, and I think it is Norm MacDonald!
Yeah, his voice is pretty unmistakable.
If they are going for a whole series of Colonels, they could get themselves some nice publicity by sticking their thumb in Donald Trump’s eye and casting Rosie O’Donnell. Trump wouldn’t be able to resist mentioning it on national television (= free ad for KFC!)
Is that the one where it sounds like the guy is saying “I’m going to crap like nobody’s looking”? Yeah I hate that one too.
This may well make me the crankiest of all cranky old ladies everywhere, but I insist on outing myself anyway.
There’s a commercial for Subaru airing now. The father is cleaning out the old wagon to hand it over to his daughter, who I presume is taking it off to college. He waxes nostalgic as he picks up miscellaneous crap from the floor of the car - part of a bandage from a soccer injury, part of a prom corsege… I know I’m supposed to get all teary-eyed, but all I can think about when I see this commercial is “You’ve had this car HOW LONG and you never even vacuumed it out once???”
Yeah, I’ve whined about that already.
I do find the new Colonel Sanders amusing, if only in the sense they seem to be listening to the general buzz that Daryl Hammond’s version sucked. At least Norm’s didn’t have that stupid laugh.
Anyone else seeing that Honda commercial with the Great Danes in it back to back every time it airs? I can’t mute the tv fast enough…
New one on radio:
“Rufaldo Wimmerson said…”
Who the fuck is tha-- oh. :smack:
I dont know what the ad is for. After that I’m too distracted to follow the rest.
FWIW, I have no idea who “Rufaldo Wimmerson” is, and if the name is a play on words, I’m not seeing it.
Perhaps it would help if we knew what he said. If it was anything to do with mid-19th-Century Transcendentalism and individuality, that might narrow it down a bit.
Wait. “Rufaldo Wimmerson” <=> Ralph Waldo Emerson?
But the ad pronounced it Rufaldo Wimmerson? Is that what the poster was complaining about? I guess I just didn’t get what the complaint was, having never heard/seen the ad in question.
Just a guess on my part, but what the hell else could it be?
She is an Amalie clone. Its an excellent film.
I didn’t read the whole thread to see if this was posted. There’s an ad for Denorex dandruff shampoo that’s all kinds of WTF. I’m assuming women are not the target audience for this.
Yes, that’s it. I figured people would try mumbling it and figure it out, but I just made the same blunder.
Anybody mentioned the Target ads yet with the shrill cover version of “ABC”? By the time the melisma kicks in I’m about ready to claw my ears out.