# What do Progesso soup and Comcast cable have in common?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041 "2002-12-11T17:32:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/21 "2002-12-12T16:15:41Z")
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> \*Originally posted by apotheosis \*
> \*\*Dunno about progresso soup, but Comcast’s cable service (tv-wise, anyway) is pretty hideous. Maybe it’s just the decoder boxes, but that 2+ second lag in tuning each station gets damned annoying when you’re channel surfing.
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> Perhaps I got spoiled by Roadrunner’s instant tuning…but then again, Roadrunner makes you suffer through approximately 2^24 AOL and/or Roadrunner commercials per hour, so the annoyance factor kinda evens out.
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> Comcast’s cable modem seems ok, now if they’d just figure out how to offer static IPs… ☹ \*\*
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Please god shoot me. Every second ad break.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/22 "2002-12-12T16:59:09Z")
[Kathy Bates voice]
Yooouuuu _dirty_ bird.
[/Kathy Bates voice]
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/23 "2002-12-12T17:08:05Z")
Roar runner?
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### Author:  [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/24 "2002-12-12T17:44:42Z")
Sort reminds me of this movie theater I go to fairly often. You know, they have the reel that advertises the Theater company and it declares “Nobody Does it Better!”
To which I must invariably reply: “Several other companies do it just as well.”
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/25 "2002-12-12T17:53:10Z")
Campbell’s Soup can’t say much, as they’re one of the worst offenders when it comes to advertising BS. I had much to say about the subject [here](http://www.thejtrain.net/adnauseum.html) . (Note that a lot of my web site’s navigation is jacked up; I’m working on that.)
I didn’t even get into that “the soup you can eat with your hands!” bit from a while back. I felt they left out the qualifier, “if you’re a drooling moron with the table manners of a wildebeest”.
Dr. J
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### Author:  [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/26 "2002-12-12T19:00:28Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*
> \*\*I like Campbells’ better too. Even the condensed soup.
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> And Chunky is the best. The Soup that eats like a meal.
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> 😃 \*\*
I know you’re tempted to use a fork, but I hope you’re using a spoon to get every drop.
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/27 "2002-12-12T19:43:46Z")
The soup commercial bug me because I think most brands are equally disgusting.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/28 "2002-12-12T20:09:32Z")
What i love about the Progresso soup ads is the way that one character always admonishes the other for using condensed soup, and says that now that they are grown up there is something better.
Yes, there is something better. **Make your own fucking soup** instead of eating out of a can your whole life. It will taste heaps better, and will probably actualy be cheaper.
Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/29 "2002-12-13T02:49:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by mhendo \*
> \*\*Yes, there is something better. **Make your own fucking soup** instead of eating out of a can your whole life. It will taste heaps better, and will probably actualy be cheaper.
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> Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest. 🙂 \*\*
Careful, **mhendo**. You see, if there was no such thing as canned soup, many live-alone bachelors would die of starvation.
Then, who would fix your computer? Hmmm…
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### Author:  [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/30 "2002-12-13T04:15:53Z")
We have satellite and there is a slight delay when changing channels, but I actually like it because it tells me the title of the show at the top of the screen briefly, how long it has left, the number and name of the station, etc. Very helpful when commercials on.
Though it does tend to pixellate, blink out, freeze while the audio keeps going, or just quit getting the signal altogether whenever it’s raining heavily at all. It gets really annoying.
I have Roadrunner on my computer and for the half a year I’ve had it, it’s been great. As a matter of fact they just came out and spent an hour changing my jack to a different room and only charged me $27 for it. The phone company charged $95 to move one little pair of wires inside the box out back, and four hours later my dialtone just went out completely. Gotta love it.
(And I like Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup…)
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### Author:  [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/31 "2002-12-13T04:47:20Z")
The Campbell’s tomato cut with milk is good, the Cream of Mushroom is good for the green bean thing, but real soup needs to be home made!
Comcast sucks. I can’t stand the dumbasses that show their “tree of shame.” They “had to cut down their tree to watch TV” on a the dish!?!?! The dish says CLEAR VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN SKY!!!
I bet those chumps could be sold a Chevette as a far less expensive two door Chevy, way less than the two door Chevy called a Corvette. Kinda like the Suburu Outback comparison to the Ford Explorer.
Send Comcast a tech question that says something like my remote does not work, I have replaced the batteries and it still does not work. Their answer = check the batteries. They to call the CS line and ya better have lots of time to kill - Ahhhhhh!!!
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-progesso-soup-and-comcast-cable-have-in-common/142041/32 "2002-12-13T14:02:39Z")
Ah, yes, the infamous tree of shame spot. The couple in that commercial embody what Baltimorons sound like, hon.
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