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[OT?] The newest Truth commercial...
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TridenT
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 		[OT?] The newest Truth commercial...
I was exactly sure of what I was watching last night when a commercial came on featuring amateurish camera movements and loud street noise. Those wacky anti-big-tobacco guys were at it again... They had some fire engine and were raising one of their boys (the Truth guys, not a fireman) up on the ladder towards an office building, holding up a sign with "Q: somethingsomething" on it, and ranting about "fire-safe" cigarettes, and how they're only sold in NY, where their office building allegedly is located. The Question was why not everywhere?

Anyways, at the end of the commercial, as I shook my head in disgust at how dumb those commercials are, a girl runs up to a trash can, slaps on a sticker with an A: on it, and the screen says "Ask questions, something" (I'm paraphrasing from a poor memory. Sorry.) right below the sticker from a street-side camera angle. Then, that text goes away, and the word "truth" appears in orange bubbles as usual, but just to the left of it in white letters is the word "seek".

SUMMARY for those with ADD, like me: At the end of a Truth ad, it says "seek truth" at the bottom of the screen! Shocked

I was caught completely off guard and nearly spat a mouthful of Coke on my cousin, who would've been upset at me because neither he nor my other cousin sitting in the room know anything about ILB, and would be wondering what my problem was. I swear if there had been an exclamation point before the word seek I might've fainted.

In other ILB-outside-ILB news... one of Eminem's tracks on his latest CD (which I just got today) is titled "Yellow Brick Road"... sound familiar to anyone else?
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Danin
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 		behold:
corp proc 2
!label PhillipMorris

reveal:
seeker > !hate PhillipMorris
!splotch PhillipMorris
recurse

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 		Re: [OT?] The newest Truth commercial...
TridenT wrote:
In other ILB-outside-ILB news... one of Eminem's tracks on his latest CD (which I just got today) is titled "Yellow Brick Road"... sound familiar to anyone else?


Yeah, it's from the Wizard of Oz... somehow I doubt that Eminem has heard of ILB.

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TridenT
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 		Re: [OT?] The newest Truth commercial...
Daffy889 wrote:
TridenT wrote:
In other ILB-outside-ILB news... one of Eminem's tracks on his latest CD (which I just got today) is titled "Yellow Brick Road"... sound familiar to anyone else?


Yeah, it's from the Wizard of Oz... somehow I doubt that Eminem has heard of ILB.


Oh, I know.. it's just that anything ILB related catches my eye or ear these days, even if the ILB thing in question comes from somewhere else (as a lot of them do).
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Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
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I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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 		Re: [OT?] The newest Truth commercial...
TridenT wrote:
Oh, I know.. it's just that anything ILB related catches my eye or ear these days, even if the ILB thing in question comes from somewhere else (as a lot of them do).


Yeah, I know. I saw a documentary on varroa mites last week and nearly fell off my chair.

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 		So the anti-tobacco guys (who I agree with, yet hate their ads as they are annoying) found us, hm? Seek Truth...that or Seeker managed to somehow influence the commercial's content Wink
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 		!reveal>truth

Durga: "Jersey."

Jersey: "Wha?"

Durga: "I've realized something. The covenant dont have any plans to glass earth. They've seen the statistics on second hand smoke and realized that we're all going to kill ourselves and each other withni 50 years anyway."

Jersey: "daaaam*cough*

*Some shocking picture involving babies or old people dying*

TRUTH

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 		some of their commercials are actually pretty good... like the one where they actually pulled off unloading truckloads of 'bodies' in body bags in front of an office building... or where they stuck signs in doggy doodoo and got people's reactions as they walked by... things like that... it's like reality-tv for commercials. They're all over-the-top, but that's the whole point... their website usually has all their commercials and videos they've created. I'll have to go check out this one and see how dumb it is Razz Smile
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 		Over the top is for getting the point across to children. Believing that, I find myself generally incensed by their strategies.

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TridenT
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 		Eeeek! The woman's voice box in that other commercial! The Flea must be using it!

Razz
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SP wrote:
Which is the enemy of mankind, crunchy peanut butter, or smooth peanut butter?
...
I'm sorry, Iron Chef Mike, the answer is Hippopotamus.
Best. Quote. Ever.
XBL Gamertag: RokaR

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 		You think thatis weird. I was looking through my Geometry book and one of the lines in one of the geomatrical shapes was called SP.

OMG00000000RDZZZZZZZZZZteh sl33pi|\|g P21ncess es teh |\/|4s7er C|-|3FF!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111

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 		yeah? Well, I've got a minidisc player, and 2 abbreviations I saw on it (and the program for it) are SP and PF....

Creeeepy....
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 		My question's always been where the money for those Truth ads comes from. Is it from cigarette taxes? If so, aren't there other, more relevant uses for that money? This does not seem to be a cheap ad campaign.

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