Hey! Did you see that ad? (I*ll check AdLand)
Submitted by TDD on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 03:05.
I think I am getting an idea
Television sets
My telly is an Electrohome. It has nice fake wood panelling. It resembles one of these It still works fine, and I got it used.
Oh, I found out what commercial(s) my coworkers were talking about
http//www.frankandgordon.ca/
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Yesterday at lunch, some of my coworkers (my day job) started talking about this television ad they had seen, and how great it was. I don*t recall what it was exactly, but I think it was from Bell Canada (my mind, as usual, was somewhere else).
Suddenly, someone asked if I had seen it. Snapping back to the place I had left my body sitting in the lunch-room chair consuming my plain egg sandwich a few moments before, I replied, "No, I haven*t. I don*t watch TV".
I don*t need TV. I watch Ad-Land.
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The Art of Magic is said to be the world*s third oldest profession; the second is said to be advertising. - Inspired by Max Maven.
Heya TDD, you*re so right. I have a collection of TV-sets but none of them work, they just look cool. I watch my computer all day long though.
oh and this is not a jab, not anything of the sort, but I*m really genuinly curios - why do you write Ad-Land when we never do? I*ve seen other people do it too.
I have one old televison (probably manufactured in the late 1970s), and it gets hardly any use. No cable, nor satellite, just whatever it can pick-up out of the air. I also have no time to sit and watch the idiot box , nor the interest. Although I think the web is full even of much more idiocy than television, at least there is one place on the web worth going to.
During the Superbowl, the ads that run on the US television networks are different than the ads that run on the Canadian televison networks. Canadians will watch the same Superbowl as the Americans, but see different commercials (I don*t watch the Superbowl).
Super Bowl ads are the real competition
I can see the American Superbowl commercials here, as well as other commercials from all over the world. I can watch the ads I want to when I want to, something that can*t be done with televison.
As for the "Ad-Land", my spellchecker is at fault for that one (no, I am). Not the greatest speller am I. The spellchecker likes to suggest hyphenated words as a correction for words it does not know. "Super-bowl" for example. The "Ad-Land" slipped by me.
"Adland"
"Adland"
"Adland"
"Adland"
"Adland"
*hahahaha*!
My spellchecker always suggests ad land, and it drives me batty! It puts a space in almost any word built from two. At least I don*t get hyphens. Thought it was a mental merge of the URL and the name, see.
My best telly in my collection is an AGA television from 1958, made from teak wood. The speakers look like an old Buicks grill I swear. wink I once managed to get MTV on it but it overheated and now I need a new.. Hmmm.. "sprättsäkring"? Little widget that looks like a hair-pin which "pops" open ... Oh, fuse! Yeah it*s fuse in English. I*ll fix it later.
I was able to find this
AGA
And this
AGA
But I could not find an English translation for "sprättsäkring" on the web. (You told me what it means, but I wanted to learn more.) smile
hah, good finds. My telly looks like a slightly older version of the one depicted here
The speaker gate at the bottom looks like cars grill. wink
I found no images of sprättsäkringar on the web. /