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Pastimes : A Review of TV Commercials: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: miraje who wrote (228)	12/20/2007 2:54:54 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 638

I have two commercials that stick with me...and have enjoyed enough to laugh like a fool. The first is a GEICO commercial that has a setting at a diner. The waitress comes and serves the young man his sandwich. He looks at it, opens it to find some mayonnaise on the bread. He declares, "I did not order mayonnaise." The waitress says in so many words, "OK", takes the bread slice with the mayonnaise on it, drags it against the edge of the table, leaving a glob of mayonnaise on the edge of the table, and then replaces it on top of the sandwich. I just howl thinking of that one. The second commercial involves a young couple, sitting on a couch, browsing a real estate website on their television via its remote control. The woman is holding the remote and says to her husband, "Did I tell you my Mother is coming to live with us? We should buy a house where she will have a place large enough so she can live with us." The husband gets a pained look on his face. The camera slowly pans over to the wall to show a picture of the Mother..(a real sour puss), then back to the couple on the couch. The husband takes hold of the remote and finds a website showing a house with a small apartment above the garage and says " This is a good place, it has a small apartment above the garage." The wife responds, "Oh yeah, no wait, the apartment is unheated." The husband responds, "Is heat important?" Just cannot stop laughing at that one either. len