now i’m baffled. i thought you used saran wrap for sucking chest wounds…?
What if the girlfriend says, “You need to go buy me tampons, now!” and for some stupid reason doesn’t know which ones she wants? Thanks to Spike TV, YOU can tell her about the ones on the market and help her pick. But quickly, before she bleeds through her pants to the sofa!
Pfft. No, no, no. Here’s what I do: I put on my dumb, confused face and nod blankly, until she realizes I have no idea what she’s talking about and may return with tampons or, alternately, a roast chicken and just goes herself…
If it is an absorbant roast chicken…
The tampon ads on Spike/TNN strike me as odd, because it seems like an inefficient use of the advertiser’s budget. You don’t see ads for powered scooters or Life Line on the Outdoor Channel or Fit TV, classical music compilations on ESPN, or Girls Gone Wild videos on History Channel. (However, there is that ad for the Time-Life Christian pop music compilation during every commercial break on SNL … go figure. “Shout … to … the north and the south … sing … to … the east and the west!”)
Seems like the money could be better spent advertising tampons on … oh, Lifetime, Lifetime Movies, Lifetime Real Women, Oxygen, WE, Hallmark, E!, Fashion TV, Fine Living, Food Network, or even UPN, MTV, and VH1.
I can’t get Spike TV on my set. Just this blue screen reading that the detected estrogen levels in my living room are too high to allow transmission of such a manly network.
'Course, I’ve sometimes wondered about monster truck rally ads on Lifetime. Sure, there are women who go to these things and guys might be watching Lifetime. Enough to warrant a jillion ads? I don’t think so. Somebody has a really good sales department.
Real men use duct tape on sucking chest wounds.
Of course, real men use duct tape on damn near everything.
That’s what I was taught in EMT school.
Yesterday, the 4th of July, I was discussing this thread with family who had turned to TNN (Spike). Thunderball was on. We waited until the next commercial break and the first commercial that came on was for Secret Anti-Perspirent! “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.” Then, sure enough, there was a Tampon commercial.
I’m beginning to suspect that the “Spike” in “Spike TV” is made of pliable plastic, battery-powered, and fleshtone.
Mr. S says that they should just go ahead and call themselves TNA.
This was a ref. to the old UL that tampons were originally invented during the World Wars (don’t remember if it was supposed to be I or II) as a battlefield dressing for bullet wounds, and later became a feminine hygiene product.
In truth, they were just produced side-by-side in the factory.
http://www.tampax.com/en_us/pages/common.shtml?pageid=ar0085
I have to say, though, that would be THE BEST ad for Saran Wrap!
And just to lay the arhumant to rest, ** Ryujin ** wouldn’t be sent for tampons, because I have two emergency ones, but other than that I can’t stand them. Especially the thought of the “rope” tampon being advertised. Ouch!
It could be worse. You could have one of these as your backup.:eek:
Oh, jeez, I don’t even want to know what that thing is for.