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To: capitalistbeatnik who wrote (3018)	6/19/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Let's all just cancel orders for Hewlett Packard PCs until they get rid of that commercial.

To: capitalistbeatnik who wrote (3018)	6/20/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Yes, the HP Kung Fu commercials are becoming as annoying as the old Audi mannequin commercials were. On the other commercials though, I guess I'm in the minority. Don't get me wrong, Stuart, to this day, is still hilarious every time I see it. And the two women jogging is also hilarious, albeit a bit weird. It's a bit tough to take the woman doing the trades seriously while she's doing her trading from the kids' playroom computer. And could her kids be any more spazoid? That son of hers acts like he could be a future member of Columbine High School's Trench Coat Mafia. But the guy washing the boat is blase'. Bitching about brokers...yawn, where have I heard that before. I mean, did it ever occur to him that his broker was saying the same thing about him? "Don't need that guy who washes his boat. Don't need a client who calls me 5 times a day checking in on his $3,000 investment. My client told me I'd be sorry when he left--that was yet another thing he was wrong about." I've yet to hear a broker whine about a client going to a discounter. When someone like that leaves, there is happiness on both sides, believe me. And I like the First Union commercials. Scary??? I don't think so. They are an entertaining parody on the investment banking world. I love the one where it looks like a casino...the guy hawking hotdogs is hilarious to watch, and the Penny Stock arcade, where the midgets are screaming "buy, buy, buy" is also priceless. And I love the swiveling head that says "Buy!" and then turns his head and says "Sell" 2 seconds later. For the life of me, I cannot understand how anyone would consider that commercial "scary." The Janus commercials are getting a bit too much for me. The one where they talk about the drug company is way out of whack. "We looked at a drug company. If their Phase III results worked, the stock would hit. So Janus hired a laboratory and did our own independent Phase III clinicals..." Yeah right. Or when they say they had an investment in a restaurant and the fund manager called each restaurant branch each Saturday night to make sure they were booked. Gimme a break, does anyone really believe a fund manager is spending his Saturday evenings dialing restaurant chains?