Guess who? - 08/30/02 04:40 PM
Re: Guess who? - 09/02/02 08:22 PM
Dear Gallant Ted,
I was sitting around admiring the photograph of you, Alcamoo, and Maddog, when all of a sudden it hit me.
Hey! This is no casual photograph, this is an professional advertisement for Budweiser Beer!
Ten years ago the Budweiser folks found that beers could be sold more effectively if their billboards told a simple story, ideally a story of romance, and in stories of romance three is the ideal number. I rushed to the store and bought a case of Budweiser.
At home I drank half of the case of Bud and then looked at the photo again. No help, the photo still looked fuzzy. Then I got a pair of 3-D glasses. Bingo! Clear as a bell. I got another Budweiser from the fridge and began analyzing the picture.
Right out of the box my eyes were drawn to a gold-framed painting of the setting sun, symbolically situated directly above Maddog's head. Maddogs close-set beady eyes look at you, Gallant, with anger, but it is an sad, sad, anger that masks a deep hurt.
You, Gallant, are looking at Alcamoo. No! More than looking! Your eyes ask Alcamoo a soundless question. In profile, your handsome countenance seems pensive, and yet somehow hopeful, expectant of things to come. While Alcamoo, superficially pretending unawareness of your gaze, looks ever-so-slightly to the right and beyond you, with a demure, bemused, half-smile, but also with a confident awareness of the allure of his silky yellow neck ribbon, and of the intense desire evoked by his fluffy brown fur.
Wow! I said to myself, and then got another beer.
Milum.
I was sitting around admiring the photograph of you, Alcamoo, and Maddog, when all of a sudden it hit me.
Hey! This is no casual photograph, this is an professional advertisement for Budweiser Beer!
Ten years ago the Budweiser folks found that beers could be sold more effectively if their billboards told a simple story, ideally a story of romance, and in stories of romance three is the ideal number. I rushed to the store and bought a case of Budweiser.
At home I drank half of the case of Bud and then looked at the photo again. No help, the photo still looked fuzzy. Then I got a pair of 3-D glasses. Bingo! Clear as a bell. I got another Budweiser from the fridge and began analyzing the picture.
Right out of the box my eyes were drawn to a gold-framed painting of the setting sun, symbolically situated directly above Maddog's head. Maddogs close-set beady eyes look at you, Gallant, with anger, but it is an sad, sad, anger that masks a deep hurt.
You, Gallant, are looking at Alcamoo. No! More than looking! Your eyes ask Alcamoo a soundless question. In profile, your handsome countenance seems pensive, and yet somehow hopeful, expectant of things to come. While Alcamoo, superficially pretending unawareness of your gaze, looks ever-so-slightly to the right and beyond you, with a demure, bemused, half-smile, but also with a confident awareness of the allure of his silky yellow neck ribbon, and of the intense desire evoked by his fluffy brown fur.
Wow! I said to myself, and then got another beer.
Milum.
Re: Guess who? - 09/02/02 08:53 PM
Howya mil
Wow!! Fair play ta ya - ya have us down ta a tee (or should that be a beer?) Yer very good at readen Teds. Listen, I'm scannen me paw ta ya as I type so that ya can tell me more about meself and what me future holds. Last time I got it done the fortune teller said that me future looked hairy - so I'm hopen fer somethin a bit more positive this time.
Yer discriptive analysis was firece elokant too - it's grate ta meet someone what's good at both the readen and the writen.
Be seein ya
GallantTed
PS the truth of the matter is that we were all tryen ta think of an plawsible excuse ta get outa buyen the next round.
Wow!! Fair play ta ya - ya have us down ta a tee (or should that be a beer?) Yer very good at readen Teds. Listen, I'm scannen me paw ta ya as I type so that ya can tell me more about meself and what me future holds. Last time I got it done the fortune teller said that me future looked hairy - so I'm hopen fer somethin a bit more positive this time.
Yer discriptive analysis was firece elokant too - it's grate ta meet someone what's good at both the readen and the writen.
Be seein ya
GallantTed
PS the truth of the matter is that we were all tryen ta think of an plawsible excuse ta get outa buyen the next round.
Re: Guess who? - 09/02/02 10:19 PM
Niceta meetya GT 
we were all tryen ta think of an plawsible excuse ta get outa buyen the next round
Shouldn't be a problem - looks like you all forgot to take your wallets. As you all have drinks in the pic, you must have had a tab behind the bar. So should I presume you kept the tab going until last orders, then did a runner when the landlord was busy dealing with the inevitable rush?
No no, can't be for a Gallant Ted.
Ah, simple! The landlord knew of your worldwide fame, and thought the worldwide publicity worth the substantial amount of bear, sorry beer, that the three of you consumed that evening.
Only thing is you forgot to include the pub sign in the picture as may have been intended. Ah well.
we were all tryen ta think of an plawsible excuse ta get outa buyen the next round
Shouldn't be a problem - looks like you all forgot to take your wallets. As you all have drinks in the pic, you must have had a tab behind the bar. So should I presume you kept the tab going until last orders, then did a runner when the landlord was busy dealing with the inevitable rush?
No no, can't be for a Gallant Ted.
Ah, simple! The landlord knew of your worldwide fame, and thought the worldwide publicity worth the substantial amount of bear, sorry beer, that the three of you consumed that evening.
Only thing is you forgot to include the pub sign in the picture as may have been intended. Ah well.
Re: Guess who? - 09/02/02 10:24 PM
Watch the Hamm's folks don't hit ya with a copyright suit.
Re: Guess who? - 09/03/02 12:39 AM
Howye Fishyonabike and Faldage
Grate ta meet yerself too Fish. As it transpired the pleece raided the joint just as that photysnap was been taken - that's why it's so fuzzy. Lookily we all got out ok. As fer keepen a tab, Mr Slasher (prioter of Slasher's Bar(and Grill)) is very strick about cash upfront.
Faldage - who is these Hamms people? That photysnap, plus the mighty fine painten on the wall is genwine. I didn't know it was like another photysnap - honest! I'd love ta see the one we're supposed ta be maskeraden as.
Be seein ya
GallantTed (uniquely one of a kind)
Grate ta meet yerself too Fish. As it transpired the pleece raided the joint just as that photysnap was been taken - that's why it's so fuzzy. Lookily we all got out ok. As fer keepen a tab, Mr Slasher (prioter of Slasher's Bar(and Grill)) is very strick about cash upfront.
Faldage - who is these Hamms people? That photysnap, plus the mighty fine painten on the wall is genwine. I didn't know it was like another photysnap - honest! I'd love ta see the one we're supposed ta be maskeraden as.
Be seein ya
GallantTed (uniquely one of a kind)
Hamm's Bear - 09/03/02 10:01 AM
Here's a blurb about the crafty little fellow:
http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_hammsbear.htm
And here's some pictures:
http://www.vegalleries.com/comm2.html
Scroll down past Tony the Tiger and Western Airlines and click on the thumbnails.
http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_hammsbear.htm
And here's some pictures:
http://www.vegalleries.com/comm2.html
Scroll down past Tony the Tiger and Western Airlines and click on the thumbnails.
cultural differences - 09/03/02 10:23 AM
And here's some pictures:
http://www.vegalleries.com/comm2.html
Amazing. In all these ads I can recognise only two characters: Tony the Tiger and Mr Magoo.
Cabbage Patch Dolls I knew about as "collectible" toys, but I've never seen them as a cartoon.
Says something about Cross-Pondial differences, I think, as what's better known than images from advertising?
However, I'll bet there are far more shared icons among those younger than me (I'm knocking on 40), with more commonality the younger you go.
In ten years' time we'll be driving on the right, and it won't be considered reckless to drive on the pavement.
http://www.vegalleries.com/comm2.html
Amazing. In all these ads I can recognise only two characters: Tony the Tiger and Mr Magoo.
Cabbage Patch Dolls I knew about as "collectible" toys, but I've never seen them as a cartoon.
Says something about Cross-Pondial differences, I think, as what's better known than images from advertising?
However, I'll bet there are far more shared icons among those younger than me (I'm knocking on 40), with more commonality the younger you go.
In ten years' time we'll be driving on the right, and it won't be considered reckless to drive on the pavement.
Re: cultural differences - 09/03/02 11:04 AM
In reply to:Says something about Cross-Pondial differences
Great coin, Fish!
Re: cultural differences - 09/03/02 11:04 AM
In reply to:Says something about Cross-Pondial differences
Great coin, Fish!
Re: cultural differences - 09/03/02 01:07 PM
Thanks - I don't think there's any danger of me been done fer bleargerism now. The Bear has a glint in his eye allright - looks a bit shifty ta boot.
be seein yua
GT
be seein yua
GT
Chopped Liver - 09/03/02 01:26 PM
Says something about Cross-Pondial differences
Great coin, Fish!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=79185
Where do I send off for my membership package, ASp?
Actively, I stole it from a nother board
Great coin, Fish!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=79185
Where do I send off for my membership package, ASp?
Actively, I stole it from a nother board
Re: Chopped Liver - 09/03/02 01:47 PM
A prophet in his own country is without regard, my dear Faldage. Get used to it, and you get a free membership.
Re: Guess who? - 09/03/02 01:49 PM
Milum,
An acute analysis, if I ever saw one.
An acute analysis, if I ever saw one.
Re: Unchopped Liver (pool) - 09/03/02 02:12 PM
>>Says something about Cross-Pondial differences
>Great coin, Fish!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=79185
Ah, Fal, but that's Pondial rather than Cross-Pondial [and where's that copyright mark when I need it?]
Here, have some nice juicy nits.
>Great coin, Fish!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=79185
Ah, Fal, but that's Pondial rather than Cross-Pondial [and where's that copyright mark when I need it?]
Here, have some nice juicy nits.
Re: Unchopped Liver (pool) - 09/03/02 02:23 PM
that's Pondial rather than Cross-Pondial
Sorry, in Pulga v. Floh (Sup. Ct. Lud. Fls. 8th Dist. 08/01/02) it was determined that simple addition of clarifying adjectives without altering the intended meaning was insufficient to support a defense against a charge of aggravated liver chopping.
Now if it's nits you want, I see a Boddington's Pub Ale and a couple of others that I can't identify but which are most definitely not BudweiserŽ.
Sorry, in Pulga v. Floh (Sup. Ct. Lud. Fls. 8th Dist. 08/01/02) it was determined that simple addition of clarifying adjectives without altering the intended meaning was insufficient to support a defense against a charge of aggravated liver chopping.
Now if it's nits you want, I see a Boddington's Pub Ale and a couple of others that I can't identify but which are most definitely not BudweiserŽ.
Re: Unchopped Liver (pool) - 09/03/02 02:45 PM
in Pulga v. Floh (Sup. Ct. Lud. Fls. 8th Dist. 08/01/02) it was determined that simple addition of clarifying adjectives without altering the intended meaning was insufficient to support a defense against a charge of aggravated liver chopping.
Exception, Your Honour! This is not the "simple addition of a clarifying adjective". Something Pondial relates to the Pond alone. Pondial differences are differences within the Pond, not differences between cultures on either side of the Pond, the latter meaning being so eloquently captured by the defendant's coinage: Cross-Pondial.
And how, I ask the jury, are we expected to derive an "intended" meaning? Has the prosecution outdone the world's leading scientists by producing a mind-reading device, trustworthy beyond all reasonable doubt?
I think not!
Exception, Your Honour! This is not the "simple addition of a clarifying adjective". Something Pondial relates to the Pond alone. Pondial differences are differences within the Pond, not differences between cultures on either side of the Pond, the latter meaning being so eloquently captured by the defendant's coinage: Cross-Pondial.
And how, I ask the jury, are we expected to derive an "intended" meaning? Has the prosecution outdone the world's leading scientists by producing a mind-reading device, trustworthy beyond all reasonable doubt?
I think not!
Re: Unchopped Liver (pool) - 09/03/02 02:50 PM
I think not!
And he disappeared in a puff of logic.
And he disappeared in a puff of logic.
Re: Unchopped Liver (pool) - 09/03/02 03:09 PM
>>I think not!
And he disappeared in a puff of logic.
You calling me Rene, chum??
Mind you, could be apt:
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/bruces.php
And he disappeared in a puff of logic.
You calling me Rene, chum??
Mind you, could be apt:
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/bruces.php