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Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/5/2007 7:12:21 PM   
michaelOfGeorgia


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Status: offline 		what's with the advertising people these days? ar ehtye just getting dumber or what? seem that everyone's getting into these stupid commercials.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/5/2007 7:14:21 PM   
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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/5/2007 8:41:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know what the deal is. However, with every comercial they make, I feel less incline to have Geico as my Auto Insurance Agency.

From the lizard, then "I have great news," So easy a Caveman can do it!, and now they're using the Flintsones, Clampets, and Cabage Patch Kids. I'm seeing a slope of dumber and dumber.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/5/2007 8:43:12 PM   
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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 1:28:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		They got you talking about them.....which is the ultimate point.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 1:43:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes!  I was just mentioning to a friend the other day how stupid some of these commercials are.  I can't believe people even come up with some of those ideas, and worse yet, I can't believe any of the powers that be approve and pay for them! 

Then again, I don't really watch commercials anyway.  In this case, the TV was on in the background and I happened to notice and think they were ridiculous.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 2:14:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't watch TV as a rule. I do watch DVDs of movies that interest me, but I am also running out of good movies. Hell, I am running out of good porn for that matter!

My own life - and sex life - are vastly more interesting than what TV offers up.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 3:55:35 AM   
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They got you talking about them.....which is the ultimate point.


Very true. There are entire shows devoted to memorable commercials. We all remember those really funny or really odd commercials, and more importantly, we remember what company is being advertised.

Hell, I still remember an E-trade super bowl commercial from like four years ago, because it was so funny.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 4:51:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		The golden rule of marketing is that advertising (discounting stuff obviously aimed at kids like toy commercials and such) is aimed at "adults" with a 7th grade education level - no higher.

Seriously - this is what they teach in college marketing classes.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 5:29:04 AM   
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My own life - and sex life - are vastly more interesting than what TV offers up.


You and me both, brother! ;)

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 5:38:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		well speaking of commercials- i go cheap- yet my friend lost her cat to the chinese fiasco. my dog wont eat dollar store dog food- so i guess it is people food or bust. really it is so bad- a buddy of mine "reported" me. my hunch is that my dog is too smart to eat teh tainted food.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 6:39:54 AM   
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well speaking of commercials- i go cheap- yet my friend lost her cat to the chinese fiasco. my dog wont eat dollar store dog food- so i guess it is people food or bust. really it is so bad- a buddy of mine "reported" me. my hunch is that my dog is too smart to eat teh tainted food.


"people food" is definitly not the way to go. It is really bad for your dog. I do not care how cheap you like to go normally, but if you take on the responsibility for another being, you have to inform yourself of the needs you are facing, not just going for the cheapest stuff available.
Many people have good expiriences with raw food diets for dogs, and you can do that relatively cheap, so maybe that would be something you should look into.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 6:45:25 AM   
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well speaking of commercials- i go cheap- yet my friend lost her cat to the chinese fiasco. my dog wont eat dollar store dog food- so i guess it is people food or bust. really it is so bad- a buddy of mine "reported" me. my hunch is that my dog is too smart to eat teh tainted food.


"people food" is definitly not the way to go. It is really bad for your dog. I do not care how cheap you like to go normally, but if you take on the responsibility for another being, you have to inform yourself of the needs you are facing, not just going for the cheapest stuff available.
Many people have good expiriences with raw food diets for dogs, and you can do that relatively cheap, so maybe that would be something you should look into.


im all for ideas- im at my wits end. my dog is a german sheppard. she wont drink beer. she is too smart for that.  she has been snubbing real dog food and looks bad. tho she is bouncing back.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 6:51:06 AM   
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I don't watch TV as a rule. I do watch DVDs of movies that interest me, but I am also running out of good movies. Hell, I am running out of good porn for that matter!

My own life - and sex life - are vastly more interesting than what TV offers up.
easy one. get yourself an apartment on the 8th floor on up. in an area of high rise apartments. there you will find live sex shows. no one closes their drapes cos no one would look in- [or record it] lol.

yould be surprised what people do when they think no one is looking..

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 9:03:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		PAh - here's some recipes for your dog. Some sound rather tasty...

http://www.healthrecipes.com/pet_supply.htm


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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 9:17:40 AM   
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From the lizard, then "I have great news," So easy a Caveman can do it!, and now they're using the Flintsones, Clampets, and Cabage Patch Kids. I'm seeing a slope of dumber and dumber.


I saw an old commercial on youtube the other day for Winston cigarettes that used the Flintstones. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OZtfcN2j7r0

They weren't aiming at the kids here at all were they?  lol

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 10:36:36 AM   
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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 12:22:13 PM   
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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 1:17:15 PM   
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Hell, I still remember an E-trade super bowl commercial from like four years ago, because it was so funny.



Those commercials are funny.

I dont watch them because they pad them inside 3 hours of a dull and idiotic game.

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RE: Are IQs getting lower for advertisers? - 9/6/2007 4:33:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia

what's with the advertising people these days? ar ehtye just getting dumber or what? seem that everyone's getting into these stupid commercials.


I think it's fairly obvious:  They're simply following the buying public.

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