Aren't the commercials geared towards the PHBs of the world? Therefore they have to be dumb! :-)>
-- Dale R. Smith "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:29:14 -0400, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not so much obnoxious as just *dumb*. > >All three campaigns share the characteristic of being insulting by their >sheer dumbness. Do the people at Ogilvy and Mather really think we're >that dumb? Or do the people at IBM responsible for giving the go-ahead >think we're that dumb? Last time I checked, most of us in IT-land had at >least a few brain cells left. > >The mind boggles. > >Now, it'd be interesting to know if the same group at O&M came up wi th >the Heist ad, and the Flying Cars ad for the pSeries folks. I can't >imagine it'd be true -- both are far too intelligent and funny -- but I >suppose it's possible. The universe is full of strange and wonderful >things. > >-- db >======================== ========================= =======================
