I appreciate your sentiment Aidan and wish you a Merry and Happy festive time.
I just wanted to point out the snow ball confusion thingy :) Cheers Jase ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan O Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: An early Christmas greet from us REALSOFT Paddies - get ye in the mood, AIDAN! > Hey Gary, Jason and all, > > I realise this is a marketing thing for Guinness. BUT over here in Ireland > you are fed Guinness from the day you were born :)) > > I admire - yes admire GUINNESS'es Marketing as - being a Guinness drinker - > one receives alot of interesting stuff in the post from them on a semi > regular basis. Calendars, beer mats, Guinness xmas cards, free beer > vouchers, competitions etc. What I find good about the marketing is the > solid thread and tie's through out all media. The web, TV, posted > literature etc. The quality is very good, nothing cheap about it. Being > into Web design as I am - I keep an eye on Marketing things and Guinness > are one of the better ones. > > This ad link was not meant as a ploy on my behalf to spread the Guinness > word, more to take it as it is - a little Christmassy Flash thing to kick > the season off. Christmas over here in Eire is taken very seriously as most > people have 2 weeks off to celebrate the season of giving. Families come > together from far and near. It is the only time of the year I see alot of > my long time / long lost friends who come back from Australia, Europe, the > States, Canada at Christmas time. They are abroad due to the fact that up > as far as the early 90's everybody [ except me ] had to leave Ireland to > get work elsewhere in the world and stayed away and not out of choice > either in most cases. So it can be an emotional time - This is very > traditional here as Ireland over the last 2/300 years suffered from massive > emigration which has only reversed in the last 10/15 years due to the > "Celtic Tiger" thing. So now you know why you will meet a Paddy in every > pub in the world AND particularly at Christmas time - crying into his/her > pint with the pull of the ould sod whistling in his/her ears :)) > > So there now - early Christmas Cheer please. Some RS 3D Christmas Pictures > would be nice :) > > Aidan > > > At 12:00 30/11/2005, you wrote: > >:) ok I gotta jump in here Gary. You may not drink Guinness mate, but you > >must have been on the Bud tonight. > > > >I understand you may not see too much snow where you are, but I need to draw > >your attention to your apparent observation of a woman assaulting a man in > >the Guinness ad. On reading your uproar and disapproval of Aidan's ad link, > >I thought I had better check out what all the fuss was about. > > > >Expecting to see some disturbing footage I logged in... did I see an > >assault..?...nope.... its called a snow balling :) You know when people > >pack tiny little snow balls in their hands and chuck them at their friends > >for fun... it doesn't hurt. Its and age old European tradition when snow > >falls (probably many other parts of the globe too) > > > >So while you cynical eyes see something completely wrong, this is a family > >sport played without malice everywhere there is snow in winter time. > > > >Hope that has cleared up the confusion. > > > >Cheers > > > >Jason > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:49 AM > >Subject: Re: An early Christmas greet from us REALSOFT Paddies - get ye in > >the mood, AIDAN! > > > > > > > Ya , that's what we need to be looking at for Christmas ... the > > > handywork of these lowlife marketing bastards . No offence to you > > > Aidan , but the marketing video is pure shite . > > > > > > Turn the sound off and you will see a girl assaulting a man for > > > no reason ... bizzare , but that's the whole idea of video imagery . > > > Get some kind of base reaction out of the viewer ... primitive , sad > > > whatever , just get some kind of a jolt out of the poor bitchslapped > > > buttfucked nitwit's while we still can . > > > > > > Seriously , in typical industrialized societies like the USA or > > > Canada the average Joe is numbed to sleep by endless bombardments > > > of stress carriers . It takes ridiculous video's (like the one I > > > just viewed) to even register a single millivolt of a response from > > > the walking dead . > > > > > > Hey , by all means link us to Christmas cheer , but maybe take > > > the time to think about the 'quality' of the content first . > > > > > > I mean , for Christ sake's , they needed to know my age-group > > > before they let me see the piece of shit (no , it had nothing to do > > > with being under-age ). > > > > > > I appreciate your thought , and I lift a Budwieser in your dir- > > > ection , but seriously, Guinness marketing bullshit has absolutely > > > nothing to do with Christmas . > > > > > > Just my 2 cents worth , so take it with a grain of salt ... and > > > a lemon wedge ! > > > > > > studio > > > www.niagara.com/~studio > > > www.studiodynamics.net > > > > > > > Hey Lads, > > > > > > > > Shur being a Paddy what can I say. Its an early Christmas Card type > >thing > > > > to get ye in the mood: > > > > > > > > http://www.happychristmasfromguinness.ie/default.asp?docookie=0 > > > > > > > > A Guinness Flash Movie to tug at your heart strings. Just select a > >country > > > > and add your date of birth. then ENTER SITE - fake it all if you wish - > >and > > > > watch. This filmed in Dublin :) No I don't work for Guinness, but I > >drink > > > > enough of the stuff I should be eligible for shares in the company :)) > > > > > > > > Enjoy, > > > > Cheers > > > > Aidan > > > > > > > > PS - I get regular stuff from GUINNESS in the post and via email. Good > > > > quality stuff. I have to say they have the marketing thing down big > >time. > > > > www.guiness.ie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: > >11/25/2005 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
