Bodkins is at it again…
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‘Who shall we use for this ad?’
‘Well, my daughter likes those two chaps off the X-Factor. How about them?’
‘What, Jedward?’
‘That’s them, but I forgot to mention, my daughter has severe brain damage. She doesn’t like them so much as drool a bit more when they come on the TV.’
‘Well, you’re the client. That’s absolutely fine with us.’
(And what’s with the completely pointless and wrong use of the word ‘then’ in the headline?)
Ben, are you connected with the advertising MI5? Or are you being spied on by said operatives?
When I log on to your site I get this black box saying – NXR surveillance patch
Subject: Kay – 0988X / 6TTGY /
Then it says updating before it disappears.
I got a screen grab of it. Weird.
Ah, it’s one of those carazy Digi Tal doo daas!
I reckon it’s an ad for the wasp book.
It listed all the facts and figures about Ben, including penis shape and size.
Apparently, shaped like a D&AD pencil.
4B, so quite soft.
What a martyr!
Now that’s not strictly true, is it?
The “then” is in there because that’s how the client wrote it down on the pads we give our clients specially printed with the words “Great ideas” at the top.
We certainly weren’t going to point out its wrongness.
To be fair he did realise it didn’t make sense but by then he’d already mandated it and changing his mind might have given people the impression that he could be wrong about something. So by being wrong about the “then” and sticking to it, he became right.
And who were we to argue?
If you like cheese,
And you like peas,
THEN you’ll love new Cheesy Peas.
I get why the ‘then’ is unnecessary, but not why it’s wrong.
When I did logic at Uni we used ‘if/then’ constructions all the time.
It’s wrong because it’s unnecessary.
My gaff, my rules.
Good rule.
Bet Jedward are getting more pussy than you…
I have a feeling they might be getting more dick than me.
Y’know…
Up their bottoms.
lame. and wtf got those two sweethearts to do with the dragon quest? unless its chasing the dragon. although they look more like e. and one of those fucks is giving you the finger. twice. twats.
Yeah I noticed the middle finger thing too. As if they weren’t offensive enough. ‘Hey look, we’re shit, getting paid, and flipping you the bird. And you’ll STILL buy the DS’.
Uh.
I love jedward leave them alone!
It’s the caption explaining that it’s Jedward playing DSi XL that does it for me.
I love Nintendo ads! They’re a ironic commentary on the modern cult of celebrity! Like Glamorama. “There was me, JLS, Elle McPherson, Mylene Class, Louise ‘n’ Jamie (whose dad, for some reason, was also there), Jedward and Stacy Solomon…”
They should do one with Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. (Yes, I had to look that up)