commercials
Here are a couple commercials straight from China that may or may not make you smile. They certainly made me chuckle.
Rejoice shampoo commercial - hmmmm... I think he meant to do it.
Viral board game commercial - Now this is one game you only play with people you hate.
 Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:
An Argentinian couple has placed a paid announcement in a major newspaper "expressing their desire for some social neglect," meaning, they don't want to be invited to anymore weddings.
Brussels Airlines is adding one more ball to their 13-ball logo on all tails and sides of their Airbuses because it was scaring superstitious customers away.
Heart disease is the number one killer in women -- take care of your heart.
Forget iPods. Bring the Boombox back.
 Check out this small collection of vintage Hungarian commercials I found on YouTube: sausages, milk, bug killer, workgloves. Did anyone else notice that the milk looked a little thick? Who eats that much sausage? And do people really hold hands a lot when they are wearing workgloves?
I had an R2-D2 cake at my 5th birthday, but no R2-D2 trash can.
Happy weekend!
 In preparation for Super Bowl Sunday, I've put together some classic Super Bowl commercials. Seriously, who really watches the Super Bowl for the football?
In 1984, Apple put together a legendary ad based on the classic George Orwell novel 1984. This commercial introduced the Macintosh.
E*Trade commercial that came out around 1999. "He's got money coming out the whazoo."
 Here is another Apple ad (1999) in which the topic was Y2K. Taken from the classic sci-fi flick 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL2000 explains in his eerie voice how in the year 2000 computers began to misbehave due to the Y2K bug. "Only Macintosh was designed to function perfectly saving billions of monetary units. You like your Macintosh better than me don't you, Dave?"
All of you have probably seen this Sprint commercial a million times, but it still makes me laugh. Sprint phones include crime deterrent.
Here's a little snippit of Super Bowl 2007. GoDaddy.com has yet another banned ad this year. Check it out. I thought it was funny.
Go Pack Go! Oh, whoops! It's the Bulls vs. the Lakers, right?
 This weekend's Lazy Weekend Links are dedicated to commercials from the 80s.
Here is a Game Boy 2-in-1 Arcade Classics commercial with a belly-jiggling, disco-dancing, goldchain-wearing, John Travolta wannabe. Warning: Hairy chest shot at the end.
Just three words, "Where's the beef?" I know Wendy's came out with a slew of "Where's the beef?" commercials, but I believe this was the original commercial that started it all.
 The NES Power Glove never worked, but the commercial sure is amusing.
This is a very cool Atari commercial, "What will we come up with next." Kids these days will never be able to appreciate gaming from our generation.
Have a good holiday weekend and stuff yourself senseless with your Thanksgiving leftovers.
 Check out Apple Japan's "Get a Mac" ads.
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Note: Just refresh the page and a new commercial will play. I believe there are 3 different commercials (iLife, viruses, and iMac) to view.
 After posting the Yip-Yips, I did more reading about Sesame Street and Jim Henson, and stumbled upon these classic 1960s Wilkins Coffee ads, which starred Jim Henson's muppets.
...The greatly increased exposure led to hundreds of commercial appearances (mostly for Wilkins Coffee) by Henson characters through the 1960s.
Being puppets, they have been able to get away with a greater level of slapstick violence than might be acceptable with human actors. A good example is one of the early coffee ads. A Muppet is poised behind a cannon seen in profile. Another Muppet is in front of the barrel end of the cannon. The first Muppet says, "How do you feel about Wilkins Coffee?" The second Muppet responds gruffly, "Never heard of it!" The first Muppet fires the cannon and blows the second Muppet away... then turns the cannon directly toward the viewer, and ends the ad with, "Now, how do you feel about Wilkins Coffee?"
Here are several videos containing the classic ads: Wilkins Coffee 1, Wilkins Coffee 2, Wilkins Coffee 3, Wilkins Coffee 4, Wilkins Coffee 5
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Cherry Coke may be "outrageous", but 80s fashion.... not so outrageous. 
You can view all the ads from Super Bowl XLI 
Ladies, slip on your heels and put on your aprons -- We could learn from these vintage Folgers commercials:
